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Newsflash: Inequality in Neoliberal America

DAVID SCHULTZ CounterPunch
Photo of a sign on a post that says PEOPLE OVER PROFIT
A new report provides perhaps the best detail we have so far on the economic and social consequences of neo-liberal economic policies in America. 

Ladders Last a Long Time

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite London Review of Books
A collection of essays by Raphael Samuel, the late historian who was one of the intellectual founders of the New Left in the United Kingdom.

How Women Are Changing Labor Unions

Emma Cordover Politico
Within unions — spaces once largely dominated by white men — leaders say they are pushing women of all races and men of color to take on leadership roles and incentivizing women to join previously male-dominated industries.

Becoming Educated

Joanne Durham Vox Populi
The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.