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Tuition Debt Financing Companies Help For-Profit Colleges Stay in Business
Most of the companies that service for-profit colleges’ student debt operate under the radar of government regulators.
Rural America Is Facing an Invisible Eviction Crisis
In places where rental assistance has been slow to be delivered, eviction cases are piling up. No one’s tracking it.
Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?
Chile’s Boric administration will be tested with contending visions of left politics in the current historical moment.
Parents With Disabilities Face Medicare Rules That Exclude Parental Assistance
Help with parenting, according to state and federal law, is not covered under current Medicare rules.
Control of House Up in Air as More Dems Say They Won’t Seek Reelection in 2022
Many of those leaving the House in 2022 are among the strongest fundraisers in the Democratic caucus.
Navajo Organizers and Miners Are Fighting for Compensation for Uranium Exposure
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has failed to justly compensate Navajo communities affected by nuclear testing.
Businesses Have Manufactured Inflation Fear to Protect Profits Amid Rising Wages
Workers don’t set prices, bosses do. And they do so on the basis of maintaining the greatest possible profit margins.
A Year in, Biden Hasn’t Fulfilled Promise to Repair Refugee Resettlement Program
Trump left the system in shambles, but Biden let in a record low number of refugees over the last fiscal year.
Desmond Tutu, Fierce Opponent of South African and Israeli Apartheid, Dies at 90
Desmond Tutu helped lead South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and supported the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.
Warrior Met Coal Miners Are Spending Christmas 2021 on Strike
The current impasse in negotiations, miners report, is over what happens when the strike, which began in April, ends.