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“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer, I hear the drummin’ Four dead in O-hi-o…” --“Ohio” (1970) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Eric Dirnbach looks at a range of labor movement actions and resources that have developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic disaster. The coronavirus crisis reminds us that workers must organize to save themselves.

As Republican governors across the South gear up to reopen businesses in their states over the objections of public health experts, health care workers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)fear for their vulnerable patients, and for themselves.

"The Last Dance" is more than just the story of a legendary basketball team. It's a broader reminder that, in America, inequality touches everything -- including sports.

Congressional Democrats must recognize that Americans want this change, and bargain hard for the $4 billion that will assure safe and fair elections.

Rather than scolding voters for wanting more options, we should put in place a more representative system.

A movie that purports to care about the environment and the future of humanity and yet seeks to undermine support for the very things we must do to save this planet, and ourselves, is worse than a disappointment. It’s reckless.

No doubt part of the reason those who used the crisis for personal gain were judged so harshly was because so many of their fellow citizens had been forced to sacrifice their lives in a battle that enriched the powerful few.

A team of scientists worked around the clock to evaluate 14 antibody tests. A few worked as advertised. Most did not.

Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is trying to out-hawk President Trump on China. That has three problems. It promotes bad foreign policy; it could stoke anti-Chinese racism; and, it doesn’t even make long-term sense politically.