Your Awful Office Meetings Are Making CEOs Money
Getting a grip on Corporate America’s structural greed.
The Labor Day Dreams of Black Workers
Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the COVID recovery — and beyond.
Black Labor Leaders and Advocates Reflect on the Pandemic and What Comes Next
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the COVID recovery — and beyond. Here are their responses.
Biden Defends Ending “Forever War” in Afghanistan and Criticizes Using War as Tool for Nation-Building
Phyllis Bennis joins Democracy Now! to discuss the latest news on Afghanistan, including Biden’s speech about ending the war there, and where the U.S. military will turn its attention next.
State of Insecurity
The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
$21 Trillion over 20 Years: Breaking New Report Analyzes the Full Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
“Our $21 trillion investment in militarism has cost far more than dollars. It has cost the lives of civilians and troops lost in war, and the lives ended or torn apart by our brutal and punitive immigration, policing and mass incarceration systems.”
We Must End the Housing Crisis
Communities need to expand the supply of local homeownership and permanently affordable rental housing, owned by nonprofits and community housing authorities.
The American Families Plan Taxes Billionaires and Protects Family Farms and Businesses
President Joe Biden has proposed tax reforms to close a capital gains loophole favoring the wealthiest Americans.
10 Charts on the State of U.S. Workers on the 2nd Pandemic Labor Day
While workers are continuing to struggle under COVID, corporate lobbyists are converging on Capitol Hill to block proposed pro-labor reforms.
Elly May Clampett Is the Target of Biden’s Tax Plan, Not Laura Ingalls
The capital-gains-tax proposal would actually protect family farmers like those on “Little House on the Prairie” and tax the windfall riches ‘earned” by ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’
Our ‘Trillion-Dollar Seven’: Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them?
The billions our billionaires are grabbing currently face a next-to-nothing tax rate.
The Institute for Policy Studies’ 45th Annual Sheridan Circle Ceremony in D.C. to Commemorate the Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt
2021 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awardees Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) and the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) will be in attendance.
Saving Democracy by Destroying It
America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.
Who Is Buying My Neighborhood?
Anonymous corporations own more and more of our cities.
It’s Time to Reassess Our Relationship With Israel
Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House.
How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home
There are obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality. Is time for activists to join forces?
U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They’re Now Up $1.8 Trillion.
Billionaire wealth gains made during the COVID-19 pandemic could pay for half of Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget package
American Billionaires Got 62% Richer During Pandemic — Almost All That Wealth Growth Will Go Income-Tax Free, Showing Need For Biden’s Tax Reforms & Investment Plans
Billionaires’ Collective Fortune Grew $1.8 Trillion Over 17 Months, Enough to Pay for Over Half of Biden’s Proposed $3.5 Trillion Investment in Healthcare, Education & More
Advocates Call on Congress to #SealTheDeal for Care, Climate, and Justice
The next few months will be crucial to securing the big, bold policy wins needed to build a more equitable, sustainable country for all.
America’s Merchants of Death Then — and Now
More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
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