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Judy Collins Talks Resolutions, War, and Keeping It All Together

Ray Roa Creative Loafing
"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

Youth Subminimum Wages

Nina Mast Economic Policy Institute
Young workers face pay discrimination in 34 states and DC

The Landlord’s Game

Sasha Archibald The Public Domain Review
Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Nikki Haley and Boeing

Katya Schwenk The Lever
Following 737 crashes, the GOP presidential hopeful helped crush a proposal to force more disclosure of Boeing’s spending to influence safety regulators.

Trillion Dollar Question

Gerry Sloan
War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.

$15, Take a Bow. $20 in Our Sights!

Gabrielle Gurley The American Prospect
Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.

Will the ICJ Find Israel Guilty of Genocide?

Meron Rapoport +972 Magazine
Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard outlines what could play out as the world’s top court decides if and how to intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza.

Trumpism Is Devouring the Evangelical Movement

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times
There’s not going to be a post-Trump religious right — at least, not anytime soon. Evangelical leaders who started with Trump on a transactional basis, then grew giddy with their proximity to power, have now seen MAGA devour their movement whole.