South Dakota’s genocide against Native Americans continues nonstop
The genocide being perpetrated by South Dakota against Native Americans continues unabated. This is beyond maddening.
Checks in Native American settlement delayed again
More than 490,000 Indians are still waiting for settlement monies due them from the federal government. It's a disgrace.
Working class roots are a precious legacy
I am not descended from bankers, Wall Street moguls, or CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. I sit here in my college café and whisper words of gratitude for my distinct heritage.
Reader voices: Night shift at McDonald’s, grease burns, minimum wage
I have worked in the fast food industry myself for two years; I can say it is an exhausting, very underpaying industry to work in.
25 hedge fund managers make more than all kindergarten teachers in America
Just 25 individuals make more than twice as much as all kindergarten teachers in America.
A minimum program for a progressive majority
This is a framework of principles that left forces could use to unite majorities in competitive battles at, primarily, the local and state levels.
NBA made the right call on banning LA Clippers owner
The NBA does not have to allow that man or anyone else who does what he did to be the public face of professional basketball in LA.
Mike Giocondo, 85: Fighter for justice at home and abroad
Mike Giocondo has died in the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville one week after being admitted for heart failure.
Gabo lives
Novelist Gabriel García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 in Mexico City. His 1967 novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" gained him the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982.
The mysteries of human capital
To most, capital means a bank account, a hundred shares of IBM stock, assembly lines, or steel plants. But such tangible forms are not the only type of capital.
