By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Congress is has headed home again, leaving behind a familiar mess. Health care costs are rising, insurance premiums are climbing, millions of people are struggling…
Commentary, articles and essays written by Dr. Julianne Malveaux.
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Congress is has headed home again, leaving behind a familiar mess. Health care costs are rising, insurance premiums are climbing, millions of people are struggling…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It has been a hard year. A loud year. A year marked by cruelty dressed up as policy and indifference framed as realism. Which is…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It’s the end of the year, which means you are being barraged by requests to give. Whether it is your alma mater, your church, a…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every year, corporations expect us to line up, log on, and lose our minds for Black Friday. They expect us to stretch our budgets, drain…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Now that Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, expect the slings and arrows at him to intensify. He has been called everything…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dick Cheney, who died this week at age 83, was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in modern American politics. The former Vice…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — We don’t hate America. We built America. Brick by brick, cotton bale by cotton bale, invention by invention, we shaped this nation while it denied…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The federal government shut down on October 1, and the impasse between Congressional Democrats and Republicans suggest that this may be a long one. Already,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA)….