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IssueVol. 085 Issue 006 (December 1 2021)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
FAMILY AFFAIRS In mid-October, I flew to Oakland, California, to meet my grandson, Felix Kyle Lueders-Morrison. He was born on Oc­tober 6 at a hospital in Berkeley, to my son Jesse and...
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LUEDERS, BILL
THE PARTY OF FRAUD O n November 16, 2020, Andrew Kloster, then a lawyer for the Trump Administration, filed an affidavit calling into question the integrity of Wisconsin’s presidential election...
Paid articleOn the Line
STANDING UP AND WALKING OUT The year 2021 was marked by an ongoing pandemic, an election, and a rightwing insurrection. 2021 will also be remembered as a moment when workers collectively stood up...
Paid articleNo Comment
Killing Them Softly with His Lies U.S. counties where Donald Trump garnered at least 70 percent of the vote in November 2020 had a COVID-19 death rate of forty-seven out of every 100,000 people, a...
Paid articleLetters
Civil Rights and Wrongs Re: “Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement” (October/November issue): Days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, which...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST The recent release of the Pandora Papers has brought to light in striking detail what some have known all along: The super rich have gotten good at hiding their wealth and...
Paid articleNo More Middle-of-the-Road
Conniff, Ruth
NO MORE MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD R epublican victories in statewide elections on November 2, especially Glenn Youngkin’s win over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gover­ nor’s race, prompted a...
Paid articleSSI’s Cruel and Oppressive Rules
Ervin, Mike
SSI’S CRUEL AND OPPRESSIVE RULES T here are about eight million people in the United States who aren’t allowed to have a monthly income higher than $794. If their income goes above that amount,...
Paid articleA Transformative Time for Workers
Jaffe, Sarah
A TRANSFORMATIVE TIME FOR WORKERS T he nurses at Saint Vin­cent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have been on strike for eight months. On March 8, they walked out after they were unable to...
Paid articleThe GOP’s Pro-COVID-19 Agenda
THE GOP’S PRO-COVID-19 AGENDA Republican lawmakers in at least twenty-six states, driven by manufactured outrage over mask mandates, vaccination require­ments, and shutdowns, have passed laws to...
Paid articleFearing Your Neighbors
Kuhlenbeck, Mike
Fearing Your Neighbors How law enforcement and Big Tech exploit neighborhood watch technology to create dystopian, digitally gated communities. BY MIKE KUHLENBECK W hen a brush .re ravaged...
Paid article‘There Was No Other Option’
Rossi, Marcello
‘There Was No Other Option’ A Washington State Indian nation is relocating an entire community to escape the impacts of climate change. BY MARCELLO ROSSI Standing near his front yard,...
Paid articleA Way of Life in Danger
Eisen, Marc
Passion comes quick when organic farmers talk soil. Their commitment to land stewardship— nurturing and improving the soil’s life-giving qualities—is a point of immense pride. Take Glenn...
Paid articleEasing the Burden of Student Loans
Johnson, Sharon
Easing the Burden of Student Loans With more than forty-three million Americans carrying $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, states are finding new ways to help. BY SHARON JOHNSON Student...
Paid articleThe Lone Wolf in the Henhouse
Christophi, Helen
early 1990s. They churned out dozens of violent skinhead anthems before California. Haughton became a Philadelphia police of.cer in 1995. Helen Christophi is a freelance journalist based...
Paid articleMy Neighbors, the White Nationalists
Cohen, Jamie Beth
My Neighbors, the White Nationalists The text from my friend, a fellow local social justice activist, came through on a Saturday afternoon. I was in the basement of my townhouse in Lancaster...
Paid articleQ: What More Can Joe Biden Do to Help Working People?
LANE WINDHAM Associate director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University He can listen. Working people are fed up after forty years of stagnant...
Paid articleGuatemala’s Failed Promise
Abbott, Jeff
T here is growing desperation across communities in Guatemala. Twenty-.ve years after the end of the country’s thirty-six-year-long civil war, the lack of hope—resulting from an economic crisis...
Paid articleActs of Rebel Sanity
Lappé, Frances Moore
Acts of Rebel Sanity Finding ways to navigate the challenges of living on a small planet. BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ I am a child of the sixties, fed by its energy and hope. In 1962, in its...
Paid articleKoch’s Campus Free Speech Ploy
Wilson, Ralph; Kamola, Isaac
Koch’s Campus Free Speech Ploy BY RALPH WILSON AND ISAAC KAMOLA W hen people raise concerns that college campuses are hostile to conservative and libertarian perspectives, they often point...
Paid article‘We Should Be Expecting a Lot More of Democracy’
Stockwell, Norman
‘We Should Be Expectinga Lot More of Democracy’ An interview with U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL J amie Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the...
Paid articleFavorite Books
Favorite Books of 2021 Ruth Conniff Refugee High: Coming of Age in America (The New Press), by Elly Fishman, tells the story of four teenagers from four different countries—Iraq, the...
Paid articleWhat’s Wrong with Facebook
Farsad, Negin
WHAT’S WRONG WITH FACEBOOK F acebook is in the “Oh, sweet­ie” phase of its corporate timeline. That’s the phase that comes right after “extremist hotspot” and right before “certain implosion.”...
Paid articleBaseball Will Not Push Us Out
Zirin, Dave
BASEBALL WILL NOT PUSH US OUT I will always remember 2021 as the year I fell back in love with baseball. Growing up in the 1980s, I lived for the New York Mets. I watched every game I...
Paid articleSelf-Portrait with Mixed-up Sports References and Dear Mothership
Wicker, Marcus
Self-Portrait with Mixed-up Sports References I’m so good at missing calls that I’m perfect this year. —EarthGang I’m no Dr. James Naismith, but you could say I stay checking myself. Like a...
Paid articleNo Vote, No Work!
Hightower, Jim
NO VOTE, NO WORK! T he corporate hierarchy has long tried to diminish labor activism in the United States by insisting that strikes and other workplace agitations have never had broad support or...
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