Portside

You’re okay, Computer — it’s the corporations that aren’t.

Our society values health care and education in theory, but it constantly undermines them in practice. Public sector workers feel that discrepancy most acutely. They’re striking to force our society to put its money where its mouth is.

No one can define it, much less fully replicate it.

The group isn’t required under law to disclose its donors even as it takes on the look of a political party

Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.

Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far — and many more will.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

Study after study after study demonstrate that independent, remote workers are more productive, satisfied, and engaged than their office-bound colleagues. Recent surveys find that workers, freed from the constraints of office life, report higher levels of satisfaction and greater productivity. These results aren’t surprising since remote work eliminates the wasted time of commuting and the stress of constant exposure to office politics, interruptions and meetings.

By focusing on the mistreatment of “good” immigrants, advocates miss the bigger point that everyone should have the right to due process.

For the progressive movement to make inroads in communities like mine, it needs to put forward a serious plan for how the US government can stop subsidizing corporate farms and instead return the land to small family farmers who work the land. Farmers should not have to farm 20,000 acres of rented land just to make a living.