The Democratic Party machine is a hollow shell, a monopoly whose product appeals to relatively few but thrived because it could smother any competition. Since a real opposition finally got organized, the machine has repeatedly been overwhelmed.
Many Sex Workers Struggle to Stay Safe, Healthy, and Housed During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new barriers to sex workers simply to trying to provide for themselves, However, the sex work community is, and always has been, resilient.
Blowing in the Wind: Tear Gas in Protest
The use of tear gas feels less like police are engaging in defense or de-escalation than in offense, escalating the confrontations and intending to cause protesters pain.
Baseball Season Starts, but at What Cost?
Sports in 2020 are a complicated entity. Our natural inclination is to gravitate towards things that are familiar. Sports is certainly one of those things. But it is incredibly difficult to remove our present reality from the games we love.
The Importance of Reopening Libraries
Reopening library buildings in a way that is safe, accessible, and communal will be a gradual process that is full of challenges, but it is also an urgently necessary step.
Coming or Going: The Impact of COVID-19 on Asylum Claims in Canada and the US
What Canadian and US immigration regimes could not do to asylum seekers through the law, they have done through restrictions imposed because of COVID-19.
Who Will Pay for the Crisis?
Without massive resistance movements, the marginalized will pay for this crisis by losing their livelihoods, homes, education, healthcare, and even their lives.
A Feminist Recovery Plan for Hawaii, and Beyond, Post-COVID-19
The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women has proposed a Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 that is geared toward women’s liberation. Can it be a model outside the archipelago?
Time for a New Deal in International Finance
The New Deal spirit of Bretton Woods can be an inspiration to reclaim the international financial institutions for a post-COVID-19 reconstruction that achieves a sustainable global economy with freedom and justice for working people.
Set It Off: The Current Uprising is a Chance to Reset American History
A months-long quarantine, an unemployment rate of nearly 20% and rising, and the string of horrific police violence against Black Americans has climaxed in unimaginable frustration.