| Sep 14, 2022 | RoundupThis September, America lost a true giant of journalism and public conscience. This week in OtherWords, Sonali Kolhatkar remembers Barbara Ehrenreich — the Nickel and Dimed author whose work exposed not only how hard it had gotten to make it in America, but how...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe heat. It’s never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury hit nearly 124 degrees Fahrenheit in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad — “just below the conventional estimate for the threshold of human survival,” notes science writer David Wallace-Wells....
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedFor generations, workers have been punished by corporate bosses for watching the clock. But now, the corporate clock is watching workers. Called “digital productivity monitoring,” this surveillance is done by an integrated computer system including a real-time clock,...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI have terrible chronic pain that’s left me unable to work for the last few years. I can’t sleep well, and every day is a battle just to take care of myself. It would be life-changing if I could be seen by a doctor. But I’m one of the 2 million Americans caught in...
| | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren’t making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice...
