Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers
HBO’s brilliant The White Lotus reminds us that class society permeates everywhere, even on a tropical island — something that US television traditionally does its best to hide.
A thousand kinds of crazy in a convulsing world
Last week, virtually every news outlet in the global North ignored a landmark meeting where leaders of low-income countries articulated their positions prior to the make-or-break United Nations COP26 climate summit in November.
Expanding Program Would Reduce Hardship, Improve Equity
A “rigging of the system” that empowered employers over workers was due to policy changes and changes in business practices that systematically undercut workers’ ability to get higher pay, job security, and better-quality jobs.
Capitalism brings workers into competition with each other. But what especially fragments the working class is the unevenness of capitalist development across workplaces and regions.
It's hard to say a story is a blistering indictment of privilege without making it seem medicinal, which The White Lotus is not.
With almost four million dead, the saddest story of all is the tale of vaccine nationalism that Menon tells in a world in which neither the words “fair” nor “share” seem much in fashion, but “profits” and “patents” certainly are.
Solving our child-care crisis requires strong, bold policies. World War II government efforts to ensure accessible and affordable high-quality child care points the way to the kind of bold action we need.
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