Julian Assange and the increasing threat to freedom of the press
The continued persecution of Manning and Assange shows that while actual war criminals are showered with praise and given lucrative sinecures, those who reveal their crimes are the ones who will face punishment.
Trump escalates economic attack on Cuba, banning Americans from educational, cultural trips
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”
‘Workers deserve better:’ Bernie Sanders takes on Walmart
"The American people are sick and tired of subsidizing the greed of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in this country."
Victory for workers: Connecticut passes legislation raising state’s minimum wage to $15
Connecticut now joins New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland by passing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.
The gig is up
Gig work is making capitalism harsher.
In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too pricey
Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.
Fox News is defending white supremacy
The company says that they are protecting freedom of speech.
The future of ride sharing
One would hope that this might lead to a ride-sharing operation run by the drivers, with lower prices for customers and a better share of profits for the drivers.
Ari Berman: GOP docs prove Census citizenship question is about preserving white political power
This undercount could affect everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding.
A million extinctions eclipsed by one royal grandbaby
Mainstream media gave more time to the royal baby’s birth in the week he was born than to all stories about the climate crisis in all of 2018.