At least 1.6 million California households, or one in eight, have water debt, and they could face shutoffs when Newsom ends the state of emergency

We should be less concerned about day traders getting burned, and more about the tens of millions of Americans families going hungry, jobless, being evicted from their rents, and dying in the hundreds of thousands due to a failed health care system and gross government mismanagement

Leaders are setting their sights on a national collective bargaining agreement

Interview on QAnon’s origins and evolution

Examining the underbelly of the military industrial complex

The Biden administration’s recent executive orders on climate action and environmental protections at first glance may inspire hope. Digging deeper, it becomes evident they lack substance

Black Lives Matter Protests Forced Biden to Push Racial Equity, But More Is Needed

Let’s not forget: We are standing at the edge of global change. I believe what’s visible in this fleeting moment is our own evolution

To prevent new U.S. wars, the Biden administration should commit to participate and comply with the rules of international law, which are supposed to be binding on all countries, even the most wealthy and powerful

We should champion free speech online — and argue that the best way to protect it is with a socialist program that brings privatized social media platforms into public control

Tenants’ unions are one reason that, unlike other cities with supposed eviction protections, D.C. has not had a single eviction since the moratorium went into place

Survival is all that matters. And to survive, we must win. And to win, we must act in solidarity. The clock is ticking

Asia has done a much better job of containing the pandemic. Do values have anything to do with it?

Alpha Global is yet another sign that the fight to unionize tech workers is accelerating. If it’s successful, it could provide a template for workers at other tech giants

This was a major gain for the workers’ movement, showing that unity and solidarity is the way to win gains even during the COVID-19 pandemic

In a year where the blue wave predicted by pollsters and demographics failed to manifest, Georgia offers a vision of how to turn polling numbers into votes

A review of Rinky-Dink Revolution, by Howard Waitzkin (2020, Daraja Press with MR Essays)

The only way to ensure domestic tranquility is to establish justice. It is pretending that we can address the nation’s wounds with simplistic calls for unity

Why is the city moving forward with constructing homes for rich white people while displacing the rest of us?

We are not reformists where each effort exists unto itself. We are seeking a new society. Each effort either contributes to that, or it has fallen short