Interview Economy & Labor Hiking the Minimum Wage to $15 Is Key — But It’s Hardly a Living Wage Economist Robert Pollin says a $15 federal minimum wage is an essential but limited step toward decent wage standards. by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Mar 07, 2021
Op-Ed Immigration Immigrants Will Continue to Die as Long as Agencies Like ICE and CBP Exist A humane immigration policy is not possible under these hyper-militarized agencies that came out of the “war on terror.” by Cynthia Garcia, Truthout Mar 07, 2021
Op-Ed Culture & Media Pop Culture Portrays Aerial Bombardment of Middle East as “Business as Usual” By showing drone strikes as the "answer" to terrible dilemmas, popular culture legitimizes brutal warfare. by Alex Adams, Truthout Mar 07, 2021
News Analysis Economy & Labor Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union Drive As workers in Alabama organize, the company’s tactics underscore the need for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. by John Logan, Truthout Mar 06, 2021
News Analysis Immigration Biden’s Plan to End Long-Term Migrant Detention Does Not End Family Detention Migrant justice advocates are urging Biden to permanently halt the long-term incarceration of migrant families. by José Luis Granados Ceja, Truthout Mar 06, 2021
News Prisons & Policing The House Passed a Bill Named for George Floyd. It Won’t Stop Police Killings. The bill gives more money to police while doing nothing to stop the racist war on drugs. by Mike Ludwig, Truthout Mar 05, 2021
Manchin Wins Cuts to Unemployment Benefits as COVID Relief Bill Passes Senate West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin played a central role in cutting beneficial measures from the COVID relief package. by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams Mar 06, 2021
Eight Democrats Joined GOP to Vote Down Sanders’s $15 Minimum Wage Amendment by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Mar 06, 2021
Former Impeachment Manager Sues Trump Over January 6 Capitol Breach by Chris Walker, Truthout Mar 05, 2021
“Moderate” Democrats May Obstruct Fundamentally Essential Electoral Reform by Heather Digby Parton, Salon Mar 05, 2021
Louisiana Hunger Strikers — Already in Solitary — Are Being Brutally Punished The reprisals against the hunger strikers have included being “sprayed down” with mace within an enclosed cell block. by Frances Madeson, Truthout Mar 04, 2021
New Massachusetts Rules Would Eliminate Handwritten Letters in Prison by Ella Fassler, Truthout Feb 25, 2021
Feds Convene Grand Jury to Probe Past Violent Conduct of George Floyd’s Killer by Chris Walker, Truthout Feb 24, 2021
COVID Has Put a Whole Generation of Black-Owned Businesses at Risk The economic impact of the pandemic could wipe out an entire generation of Black-owned businesses. by Lydia DePillis, ProPublica Mar 07, 2021
Detroit Will Use $200,000 in Taxpayer Money to Fund Claim Against BLM Group by Sammie Lewis, Left Voice Mar 05, 2021
Cornel West: The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style” by George Yancy, Truthout Mar 05, 2021
Latinx Farmworkers Risking Their Lives During COVID Struggle to Access Vaccines by Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Mar 03, 2021
Defeating COVID Requires Waiving Big Pharma’s Vaccine Patents, WHO Leader Says The head of the World Health Organization warned that global inequalities in vaccination could come back to haunt us. by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams Mar 07, 2021
Punitive Attendance Policies Fueled COVID-19 Outbreaks in Meatpacking Plants by Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Conversation Mar 06, 2021
Unemployment Drops to 6.2 Percent — But Long-Term Unemployment Continues Soaring by Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Mar 05, 2021
Rev. William Barber to Democrats: “Stick Together” and Pass the $15 Minimum Wage by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Mar 05, 2021