San Francisco Airport Workers End Strike After Pay Victory
The food service workers had gone three years without a raise.
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In Italy, a Setback for a More Equal Future
A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.
Corporate America Suddenly OK with Paying Taxes…
...so long as those taxes enable them to lavish mega-millions on their top executives
It’s Time to Do Away With Dark Money
While federal lawmakers fail to pass dark money donor disclosure, voters in Arizona have an opportunity to reveal who’s exerting outsize influence in their elections.
A Voice at the United Nations the World Needs to Hear
The UN’s secretary-general is speaking truth – about inequality — to our world’s leaders.
The First Billionaire To Become UK’s King
We expected Charles to get the crown. We didn’t expect him to make a billion-dollar fortune first.
Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap
Over 2 million Americans like me are stuck without health care because 12 GOP-ruled states keep refusing to expand Medicaid.
Making Earth the Shareholder
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire, puts company in trust devoted to address ecological crisis.
Not Playing Around: Video Game Testers Aim to Unionize
The unionization trend in the video game industry continues with workers at an Activision Blizzard King studio.
What’s Hiking the Heat Up So High This Summer?
The maldistribution of American income and wealth is playing a seldomly recognized rising-temperature role.
A Farm Worker Speaks Truth to Power in Washington
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency’s Hall of Honor.
Our Super Rich Are Fretting About Their Great-Great-Grandkids
By deflating today’s political ‘dark money,’ we could start securing decency for all our descendants.