Economy / Business - OtherWords

Small Towns and Rural Communities Need Transit, Too

Millions of rural Americans don’t have a car. With the pandemic battering transit agencies, they’re being totally isolated.

Instead of funding only the projects that a single billionaire esteems worthy, democracy demands something different: input.

The actor is mobilizing support for the Alabama Amazon workers making their mark on the long history of Southern organizing.

The factory farm giant can’t call itself “sustainable” while polluting water, spraying manure, and getting into the natural gas business.

For decades, the agriculture department has been indifferent to struggling rural communities. That has to change.

Trump’s trial is over, but there’s still much to learn about the deep pockets who financed the January 6 coup attempt.

Formal education is often a mark of privilege, not intelligence.

Billionaire wealth is exploding. They’re passing that wealth to heirs and heiresses virtually tax-free.

Grocery giants like Kroger are refusing employees hazard pay while buying their own stock with their extra profits.

Research links embracing fossil fuels to conservative ideas about masculinity. Can these ideas change?