Economy / Business - OtherWords

Cut the Pentagon 10 Percent, Invest in Public Health

Tanks and ships can’t save us from our greatest dangers, so let’s pay for the things that can.

With youth unemployment and student debt skyrocketing, young people need free higher education.

The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change.

From the beginning, policing in this country has primarily protected the powerful. Maybe now that can change.

Essential workers aren’t being treated like our lives are essential at all.

A former Trump staffer with no experience landed a $3 million federal contract for medical masks he couldn’t deliver.

Thanks to the Supreme Court, now I have rights that I should have had anyway. Others deserve the same.

Congress is spending trillions to keep businesses afloat. Are families less important?

There’s a lot of bad news out there, but I hope we’ll celebrate amid the pain.

Our ancestors were emancipated on Juneteenth, but we’re still fighting for true freedom in this country.