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What happened between Presley and Colonel Parker is parallel with all exploitation of workers. As Woody Guthrie wrote: “Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.”

The state laws that are now allowed by the Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision do not meet the conditions of a “just law.” We need to be loud and confrontational and disruptive in opposing them.

Some hospitals are opening child care centers to help retain nurses and other staff.

War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry, and Soaring World Temperatures

For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.

Concerns that "other" groups were demographically outpacing white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant women spurred efforts to limit the bodily autonomy of white women and limit access to contraception in order to force them to have children.

Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.

As millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19, anthropologists are investigating the surprising significance of this underrated sense.

Human capital theory cannot solve our economic woes. It’s time to tell the truth of how we got here and how we can move forward. Replacing human capital theory with a socialist theory of education and collective intelligence would be a good start.

Deadly COVID outbreaks in California’s prisons fed off decades of neglect—and spurred a wave of organizing that activists hope will further the push for decarceration.