Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?
Chile has become the global capital of resurgent opposition to neoliberalism and resistance to fascism, electing the world’s youngest president, Gabriel Boric, a former student protest leader of 35 years. Boric, a member of Chile’s congress since 2014 and law school graduate, will lead the country’s first left unity government since the bloody United States-backed […]
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Rural America Is Facing an Invisible Eviction Crisis
A Maricopa County constable visits a home to serve an eviction order. The order was posted in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 1, 2020.John Moore / Getty Images This articleThe original publication was published by Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit investigative news agency based in Washington, D.C. MILLSVILLE, West Virginia — About 70 miles northwest […]
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Tuition Debt Financing Companies Help For-Profit Colleges Stay in Business
This story was created by The Hechinger Report,A nonprofit, independent news agency focusing on inequality and innovation in education. On a hot June morning, 2019, administrators from for profit colleges sat in breakout rooms on floor 2 of the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans. They had arrived for the Career Education Colleges and Universities trade […]
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Navajo Organizers and Miners Are Fighting for Compensation for Uranium Exposure
This story was originally published by Prism. Next July, the Radiation Exposure Complementary Act (RECA), which provides compensation for radiation exposure, is set to sunset. thousands of people exposedTo radioactive materials during the Cold War-era Cold War-era Uranium Boom, either from nuclear testing fallouts or mining efforts. Advocates are pushing for the RECA Amendments ActThis […]
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Control of House Up in Air as More Dems Say They Won’t Seek Reelection in 2022
House Democrats have an upward climb to keep control of the House in next year’s midterm elections — especially as 21House Democrats have stated that they will not run for reelection next year. The House currently has a Democratic majority. 221-213 majority with one vacancy — Rep. Alcee Hastings(D.Fla.) Died in April. Monday Rep. Stephanie […]
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Parents With Disabilities Face Medicare Rules That Exclude Parental Assistance
This story was first published by The 19th. Crystal Evans wants to wash her daughter’s hair. The problem is, she can’t use her home’s shower. Medicaid approved a bathroom modification in January 2020, but it didn’t include the shower portion, Evans said. “The physical layout is a barrier. I can’t help Sophie without flooding the […]
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Desmond Tutu, Fierce Opponent of South African and Israeli Apartheid, Dies at 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 90, died Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa. He left behind a legacy of fighting oppressed people around the world. According to reports, it was cancer. Advocates for human right, economic justice and nonviolence honored Tutu who was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was […]
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A Year in, Biden Hasn’t Fulfilled Promise to Repair Refugee Resettlement Program
Joe Biden, then-presidential candidate, made his most ambitious speech on June 20, 2020, World Refugee Day. statement to date on how his administration would differ from his predecessor’s on the rights of migrants. Gone would be the “xenophobia and racism” that were “the unabashed tenets of Trump’s refugee and immigration policy.” Biden pledged to increase […]
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Businesses Have Manufactured Inflation Fear to Protect Profits Amid Rising Wages
A panic over inflation has permeated mainstream media for weeks. CNN’s clipA family struggling to pay 12 gallons of milk per day (yes, 12). Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chair, was opposed to this narrative until recently. He claimed that rising prices are a temporary problem caused by supply chain shocks from pandemic. But, eventually, things […]
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Two Years of COVID Have Forced Us to Recalibrate Our Concept of Hope
“I wish it was over for good or ill,” laments J.R.R. Tolkien’s over-curious hobbit, Pippin, on the eve of Sauron’s siege at Minas Tirith. “I am no warrior at all and dislike any thought of battle; but waiting on the edge of one that I can’t escape is worst of all. What a long day […]
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