Economy and Business
Private Equity Destroyed My Job
It took greedy investors just three years to strip my employer for parts. Here’s how to stop them from coming for yours.
Unemployment Insurance Isn’t Holding Back the Economy. Inequality Is.
Ending enhanced unemployment benefits didn’t get people back to work. It just made them poorer.
Protect Workers from This Heat
As temperatures rise, we need to stop corporate lobbyists from blocking common sense rules to keep workers safe.
9/11 at 20: Two Decades of Missed Opportunities
For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
Tax the ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’
Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion on jobs and infrastructure. A third of that could be covered by just seven billionaires.
Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs — And That’s Good
Workers are quitting jobs where they don’t feel respected. That’s a welcome sea change.
Americans Deserve Publicly Owned Generic Drugs
Bold policies could have saved America’s largest generic drug plant, but it’s never too late to start putting communities first.
The Fix Is In on Fixing Things
Big corporations want to make it illegal for you to repair the devices you bought from them.
Let’s Take the Profit Out of War
CEOs shouldn’t have a financial stake in the murderous mass violence of modern warfare.
We Need a Civilian Climate Corps
Like the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, a 21st century CCC could create millions of jobs while repairing our environment.
