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Twenty years ago it was risky to point out the growing inequality in America. I did it in a New York Times…
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (August 26th, 1941 - September 1st, 2022) was an American essayist, author and political activist. She was the author of innumerable articles and essays for various publications as well as the author of 21 books, including Nickel and Dimed (2001). She has been engaged in activism on the topics of health care, peace, women’s rights and economic justice. She founded United Professionals in 2006 and was an honorary co-chair for Democratic Socialists of America.
Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. Starting at the top executive level: You may have…
The world may be flat, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has written, but I always liked to think I was…
Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status, and let me be the first to extend him…
Can you be fired for doing a great job, year after year, and in fact becoming nationally known for your insight and…
Columnist Bill White of the Allentown Morning Call pictures Circuit City CEO Philip J. Schoonover getting a warm welcome to hell -…
Let’s face it, JetBlue and the rest of you: Anything more than three hours on the ground isn’t an airline delay, it’s…
There are people, concentrated in the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, who still confuse poverty with the simple life. No cable TV, no…
The film’s bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other,…
You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you…