Economy / Business - OtherWords

Reminder: Climate Change Was No Accident

As far back as 1982, fossil fuel executives knew they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet.

It’s not individual behavior that drives the racial wealth divide — it’s a system that many folks pretend doesn’t exist.

When powerful people complain about “purity tests,” it means they’re being pressured in ways they don’t like.

Privately, CEOs are gushing about the possibility of replacing their workforces with robots.

Racial discrimination is illegal even if it’s religiously based. Why should LGBTQ discrimination be any different?

The Green New Deal is the best plan yet to push wages up and pollution down.

If the minimum wage had kept up with Wall Street bonuses, it would be worth $33 today, instead of just $7.25.

Big ag companies killed family farms and polluted our water, while politicians blamed our immigrant neighbors. Let’s not turn on each other again.

The policies Republicans smear as Stalinist are a good deal more popular than their own.

The former vice president has managed to be on the wrong side of virtually every debate on the left in the last few decades.