Gutting teacher tenure hurts the children
Public education is under attack. Our children are labeled failures and teachers are criticized as lazy, ineffective, and overpaid.
Erwin Marquit, 89: a lifelong communist
Marquit was in the audience listening at the 30th Convention of the CPUSA when John Bachtell paid tribute to Party members who had died since the previous convention.
TPP-ing the economy: Is new trade pact “NAFTA on steroids?”
Unless you've spent the winter lost on the Pacific Crest Trail, you know that middle-class incomes have slipped again.
Selma 2015: a massive gathering but a long march ahead
What perilous choices stood before the country in 1965 and what perilous choices stand before us today?
Lesbians who chose visibility: Unsung heroes of women's movement
You don't always recognize heroes by how many bows they take or by the awards bestowed upon them.
U.S. could lose its postal service as we know it
America has to see this struggle in a different light. Unions cannot fight this battle alone.
The significance of the Howard Morgan victory for our movement
We saw from the very beginning that we would have to build a mass protest movement to to free Howard Morgan, and we did just that.
Muslim lives matter and all victims of hate crimes matter too
Perhaps the mother of all evils, or shall we say, the most potent of all evils in history has been ignorance and greed.
Three-fifths a citizen: Are corporations really people?
Today there is another group who has figured out how to use the language of citizenship to twist the rules in their favor: Corporations.
More military force is not the answer
President Obama's request to authorize use of military force against the so-called Islamic State opens unhappy comparisons with earlier misguided U.S. military ventures.
