Economy and Business

Unions Can Prevent Workplace Disasters
A trillion-dollar company like Amazon, with a centi-billionaire CEO, shouldn’t have warehouses that collapse and kill workers.

Spotify’s Business Model Is Killing Music
When musicians can’t get paid fairly for their work, everyone who loves music loses.

This Pandemic Showed the Benefits of Universal Health Care
The government saved lives by covering COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatment. What if it treated other diseases this way?

Now Hiring… Or Not
How funny that employers who won’t pay a market wage are complaining about “communism.”

An Uncharitable View of Charity
If billionaires are saying they want to “give back,” it’s because we’ve been letting them take too much.

Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty?
My daughter and I were on the verge of homelessness before the Child Tax Credit. What’s going to happen to vulnerable families now?

Save Our Endangered Cartoonists
An invaluable American species is being wiped out as their media habitat is intentionally destroyed.

It’s Time for Biden to Keep His Promises On Marijuana
Even without Congress, the president could take important steps to ease federal cannabis prohibition. What’s he waiting for?

Continuing King’s ‘Revolution of Values’
King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today.

Selling Out Democracy for Political Influence
One year after January 6, corporations are once again filling the campaign coffers of politicians who tried to overthrow the last election.