"Addressing this crisis means recognizing these price increases for what they are: the result of deeply entrenched concentrated corporate power"

"...when an entire comedy set is designed as a series of strategic moves to say whatever you want and insulate yourself from valid criticism, I’m not sure you’re really making comedy."

Andrew Yang’s new Forward Party is the latest in a long line of efforts that seek to shake up American politics by leaning into the status quo.

A vision of where the Black freedom movement could take us.

“I {Derecka Purnell} became a part of social movements who pushed me to think more critically … about building a world without violence and how to reduce our reliance on police.”

While lawmakers can’t seem to find common ground on issues like health care, climate action, or childcare, there’s one decision they have no problem agreeing on: an enormous military budget.

“California’s offshore oil platforms are a ticking time bomb,” says Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s time to shut them down.”

Her incoherent “stand” against the Democrats’ budget isn’t just hurting her party, it’s hurting her own reelection prospects.

According to a statement from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) President Anthony Shelton, the workers are demanding better wages and benefits.

"The proposed $3.5 trillion for the Build Back Better agenda is much, much less money than you think — but don’t expect the corporate media to tell you that."

“The images of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents on horseback whipping and assaulting Haitian refugees blatantly display the clear historical relationship between slavery and modern immigration policy, policing, and the carceral state”

“The question here is not 'What will it cost if we do this?' What will it cost if we don’t do this?”

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC.

...the current capitalist food system and its grotesque scale, labor exploitation, and harmful consequences to human, animal, and planetary health.

The unemployment expansion showed us what work could be like if it was freely chosen.

Biden is following in the footsteps of his four predecessors, all of whom also conducted illegal drone strikes that killed myriad civilians.