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  1. Trump Voters and I Have One Thing in Common: We’re Scared of Losing Medicaid Health care justice advocates and other grass-roots groups gather outside Trump Tower in New York to demand that Trump not agree to repeal the Affordable Care Act or attempt to defund Medicare or Medicaid. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … I recently read about a county in Kentucky that is typical of the kinds of depressed white communities that have dominated the news since Trump’s election. Owsley County is 83 percent white, mostly rural, and rigidly conservative. Continue reading
  2. The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools Sandra Ray (right) helps her granddaughter Tyanna Ray settle into her locker at Bragg Middle School in Gardendale, Alabama on Aug. 3, 2016. Ray is one of several plaintiffs involved opposing the planned separation of schools in the Gardendale City limits from the Jefferson County School system. (Photo by Linda Davidson /The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … On weekends, North Smithfield Manor smells like freshly cut grass, as men venture out under the Alabama sun to tend to their lawns. Kids race their bikes up and down the neighborhood’s hilly streets. Leslie Williams, a 34-year-old mother of Continue reading
  3. 50 Years Later, Not Nearly Enough Progress for Working-Class Women
    2 Feb 2013 … "Far from having it all, most working women live in danger of losing it all," writes activist Ellen Bravo. Continue reading
  4. What Is a Country Worth Fighting For? One hundred immigrants become American citizens during a naturalization ceremony at Liberty State Park on Sept. 17, 2015 . The group, representing 30 countries, took the oath of allegiance to the United States on US Citizenship Day — part of some 36,000 people United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) planned to nationalize nationwide during the week of Sept. 17-23. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. Before we take up our three-point stance on the national line of scrimmage, however, maybe we should ask ourselves not only Continue reading
  5. Ferguson: The Fire This Time Holding a camera and wearing a “Don’t Shoot” sign, Antoine Wallace raises his hands while leaning against a New York City police car during a protest march in New York, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)
    8 Aug 2014 … Because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration. Continue reading
  6. Think Tank Report Says Poor Americans Have It Too Good
    8 Aug 2013 … A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.” Continue reading
  7. Moore Is Less: Alabama, the Senate and the Nation Will Suffer A sign at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore at Oak Hollow Farm on Dec. 5, 2017 in Fairhope, Alabama. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2017 … Amid all the craziness surrounding Roy Moore’s race for the US Senate and the seeming willingness of Alabama’s likely voters to send a man of such dubious merit and morality to Capitol Hill (where, admittedly, the bar already is pretty Continue reading
  8. Public Education: Who Are the Corporate Reformers? Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg
    3 Mar 2014 … In an excerpt from her book Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch reveals the individuals and corporations behind education reform movement. Continue reading
  9. When Hospital Workers Can’t Afford Health Care Healthcare workers on strike. (Credit: SEIU1199 NW)
    3 Mar 2013 … Nearly one-fifth of large companies are raising the cost of health insurance by only offering high-deductible “catastrophic” plans to employees. Continue reading
  10. How Lobbying by Tax Preparers Helps Keep Tax Day Complicated NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: A man talks on the phone before going into an H&R Block on April 15, 2015 in New York City. Today is the deadline for filing federal income taxes. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … Happy tax day! Today marks the end of a several-week period in which most of us navigate the complicated and often frustrating process of paying taxes in America. According to a recent report by the Internal Revenue Service, the average Continue reading