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William Rivers Pitt | A Lesson From My Hospital Bed: For-Profit Health Care Is a Merciless Sham
Let us relegate the for-profit health care industry to the dustbin of history.
Sustainability Checks on Unilever Plantations Shouldn’t Be Used as Proof of Compliance With Workers’ Human Rights
“All of these companies are benefiting from, and contributing to, severe labor abuses in their palm oil supply chain.”
Should This College Operator Run a Key Federal Oversight Panel?
Kaiser's similarities with Trump, make his ascendancy to NACIQI chairmanship troubling.
If You Work a Full-Time Job, You Shouldn’t Be Earning a Poverty Wage
CounterSpin interviews Holly Sklar on living wage economics.
Holding Out a Helping Hand to the Banksters
Meet Keith Noreika, a lawyer for the banksters-turned-interim head of the Treasury office in charge of regulating banks.
On the Road From Anti-Capitalism to Socialism, We Need a Political Party
On the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, a new collection of essays looks at strategies for ending capitalism.
“People Were Resisting Before Trump”: Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation
Three thinkers and authors discuss the limitations of the framework of “resistance.”
What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are
There's one provision stuck in this plan that may not seem like much at first glance, but it gives away their game.
Veteran Organizer Gives Inside Look at the First $15 Minimum Wage Campaign
Jonathan Rosenblum's new book is both a timely history of a bold campaign's unlikely victory and an inspiring call for a flexible, progressive and power-building vision of labor organizing.
Community Banking Is Alive, Well: The Three Myths About Dodd-Frank and Community Banks
It's difficult to buy the story that Dodd-Frank hurts community banks.