The extremely contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has been spreading across the globe as vaccination rates lag. The U.S. is no exception. Reports from different parts of the country indicate that even fully vaccinated citizens have been susceptible to the...
Just days before an undersea gas pipeline burst in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in a fiery vortex that was all too symbolic of the current climate emergency, it was made public that a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist unwittingly revealed how the oil company uses its...
Four tech giants have been consolidating wealth and media control over the past several years, and especially during the pandemic. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google have cemented their platforms in businesses from social media to movies as critics argue their...
In recent weeks, the filibuster has been the subject of vitriol from both Democratic members of Congress and the American public. On May 28, Senate Republicans used the filibuster rule to block a commission into the January 6 insurrection. Less than four weeks later...
The fight for labor rights operates in tandem with journalism – as organizers assemble workers, news outlets amplify their voices for more of the workforce to hear, coalescing a more powerful force to push against exploitative employers. This spring, media was abuzz...
Among the many disasters that marked 2020 were the apocalyptic wildfires that raged in the American west, turning the skies into eerie dystopian shades of orange and leaving over 4 million acres of land burned in the state of California alone. According to CalFire’s...
If you get your foreign policy news today from CNN or MSNBC or NPR or similar outlets, then you’re bombarded hour after hour with the idea that the United States has the absolute right to impose sanctions on country after country...
Building more atomic bomb triggers is the ‘pits.’ The Biden administration, in its proposed military budget, is calling for a restart of something the U.S. arms industry has not produced in any significant quantity since 1992: nuclear “pits” — the spherical...
On June 8, ProPublica published an in-depth report revealing that American billionaires like Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos pay little to no income tax. The story was substantiated by “never before seen” tax information obtained from the Internal Revenue...
In “Having and Being Had,” her groundbreaking book on capitalism, consumption, and our own participation in the system, Eula Biss reaches back into the archives to define the word precarious – “depending on the will or pleasure of another.” But just who joins the...
