The United States federal government in 2020 embarked on a grand and beautiful experiment: expanding the use of tax dollars to help…
Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. Her most recent book is Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights Books, 2023). She is a writing fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute and the racial justice and civil liberties editor at Yes! Magazine. She serves as the co-director of the nonprofit solidarity organization the Afghan Women’s Mission and is a co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan. She also sits on the board of directors of Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights organization.
What happens when corporate values intersect with health care and labor organizing? Members and stakeholders of Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the…
Autoworkers are readying themselves for a potential strike as contract negotiations with the so-called “Big Three” drag on. The United Auto Workers…
What do billionaires do with all their money? Maybe they buy off a Supreme Court justice. Maybe they get their kicks from diving…
American conservatism has always been excellent at storytelling. Convincing people to back regressive policies isn’t easy and therefore stories generating fear and…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waging a war on history. The GOP’s aspiring presidential candidate saw how effectively Donald Trump tapped into…
During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from…
As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned…
Hundreds of thousands of creative workers in the film and television industry are currently flexing their labor power. For the first time…
When I was a little girl, my parents bought me a Barbie — a blonde, blue-eyed doll who I played with for…
