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  1. Ai-jen Poo: My Hopes for Home Care Workers This Year
    1 Jan 2014 … A leading activist for home care workers says victories won in 2013 shows that the arc of justice bends, but slowly. She's hoping to pick up the pace in the coming year. Continue reading
  2. The View from Main Street, Class in America, and Religion’s Role in the Election Wisconsin
    10 Oct 2004 … NOW considers the realities of the 2004 jobs recovery, which some say was meaningless because of lower wages, and looks at how religion is employed by the campaigns as the election closes in. Continue reading
  3. We Already Have the Path Through Trump’s America Young Woman at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963. (Photo by Archives Foundation/ flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … Late last month, the White House invited leaders from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to participate in a listening session and to meet with President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The group talked Continue reading
  4. Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
    10 Oct 2014 … "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war." Continue reading
  5. We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:37:54 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. The orbital outpost was at a position 225 miles above Earth over a point located at 14.2 degrees north latitude and 128.7 degrees east longitude.
    12 Dec 2015 … We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature. And that life needs to be not just better than a future of climate Continue reading
  6. If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well… In this July 12, 2013, file photo, abortion rights supporters rally on the floor of the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)
    10 Oct 2015 … The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care. Continue reading
  7. If the Media Keeps Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following a Senate Republican luncheon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … There is a giant scandal in Washington this week — and it’s not the one blaring from your television screen. Largely without media scrutiny, the United States Senate is quietly getting ready to pass their version of the House bill Continue reading
  8. Economic Populism at Heart of Emerging Debate Among Democrats Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, make statements introducing Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., seated at left, to the committee during his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state, replacing Clinton, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    7 Jul 2014 … There is a broad agreement on what might be called a “populist lite” agenda, but that's where the consensus ends. Continue reading
  9. It’s Women’s Work
    10 Oct 2020 … According to September’s unemployment report, more than 800,000 women have given up trying to find a job. During the pandemic recession, women’s labor force participation – the percentage of women holding jobs or looking for jobs – is lower than Continue reading
  10. The Little-Known Movers Behind North Carolina’s Anti-Gay Law: Ted Cruz’s Advisers
    4 Apr 2016 … For years, Harris and the Benhams have been at the forefront of every battle to oppose gay rights in North Carolina. This past February, they were at it again, this time against a nondiscrimination ordinance proposed in Charlotte that, among Continue reading