| Sep 4, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump discusses immigration as if the benefits of residence in the U.S. are a pie. When immigrants get more, the people who were already here get less. In general, that’s not true. When immigrants come here, they don’t just take some jobs (often low-wage jobs...
| Aug 28, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyThe Constitution guarantees “freedom of speech,” the right to “peaceably assemble,” and the right to petition for “a redress of grievances.” Yet these civil rights are commonly denied to workers. Sure, we can say what we want, but we pay a high price to speak — often...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyYou deserve to have a say in matters that affect you. Everyone does. That’s democracy. This shouldn’t change when you go to work. Democratic rights in the workplace — including the right to form a union, and the power to speak up about workplace issues — go hand in...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWhat do you do when someone says something offensive? You’re in a group and someone says something racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, transphobic, or otherwise problematic. What they said isn’t OK. Now what do you do? We often talk about “callout...
| Aug 27, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedOn a recent night on duty at my hospital, I was called to the room of a 60-year-old patient from Puerto Rico. He had a treatable cancer that had now turned end-stage and metastatic. But he refused medical interventions such as intubation or resuscitation. Upon...