
By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Millions of families are hanging on by their fingernails to their place in the middle class – and the United States Senate just voted to let them fall.
By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Millions of families are hanging on by their fingernails to their place in the middle class – and the United States Senate just voted to let them fall.
By Maia Szalavitz
Everyone thinks they know something about drugs—whether from personal experience or from 8th grade prevention classes or simply because the media presents so many stories about them.
By George Packer
I was there in Tampa in August, 2012, for Governor Chris Christie’s keynote address at the Republican National Convention, and from the first line I knew this guy was trouble:
By Thom Hartmann
Republicans are all upset about people getting government benefits, but our nation’s real welfare queens are this country’s billionaires and biggest corporations.
Tune in to Building Bridges on WBAI 99.5 FM / http://www.wbai.org/playernew.html on Monday, Jan. 13 at 7 pm for a tribute to Amiri Baraka and to CPRMetro at http://cprmetro.blogspot.com/ on Saturday, January 17 at 10 am for the stream of his homegoing services:
When you look at the facts, it’s clear that racism governs American drug policy. While five times as many white people as black people report using illicite drugs, the U.S. criminal justice system sends blacks to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites according to the ACLU.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake…
A Study of American Attitudes About Work, Economic Opportunity, and the Social Safety Net
Student activist Tre Murphy: Eric Holder and Arne Duncan’s call for less use of zero-tolerance policies is a good start but much work remains to reign in the use of law enforcement in public schools
HAVANA, Cuba, Friday January 10, 2014 – In the week since Cubans were granted the right to buy new and used vehicles from the state without special permission, markups of 400 percent…
Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an advertisement that is now worth revisiting.
By Dr. Conrad Worrill, PhD
“Without vigorous Black Nationalist thinking and an aggressive Black Nationalist program of action, we will continue to chase false dreams created by our oppressors”