What is the connection between a lack of commitment to collective well-being and social disaster in a time of crisis?Co-published by The Guardian
A French economist finds that America’s tax structure lies at the heart of inequality.
Republican Diane Harkey ended her dispirited campaign by attempting to distance herself from Trump’s personality but supporting him on “substance.”
Homeless veterans live solitary and nomadic existences. At night, some sleep in cars parked near VA facilities, under freeway overpasses or in public parks.
Seven Republican congressional districts in California went for Hillary Clinton in 2016. CA-4 was not one of them but Democrats are hoping to unseat Tom McClintock...
Co-published by International Business Times Darrell Issa, like the voters in his district, was a man under pressure. He put his finger in the air to test...
My mother and aunt were two of the girls of summer, recruited by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to play pro baseball during World War...
Toni Monique is an in-home caregiver who talks like a political philosopher when she is not taking care of her sister, Tonya Ginn, in Buena Park....
With good union training, wages and benefits, Cathy Nichols, a single mother, was able to provide for herself and her son without fear of impoverishment or...
Some reviewers have criticized the movie as another in a long line of “White Savior” films that feature a white protagonist who “leads” African Americans to...
I met Brian Smith and his grandmother Jean on a Sunday morning in South Los Angeles. Brian was a recent graduate of the International Brotherhood of...
I have been working at the Wilshire Grand Center construction project for a year and a half as a filmmaker trying to capture the daily effort...
I turned off onto a long dirt road about 15 miles outside of Montevideo, Uruguay and drove towards a wooden guard shack that stood across from...
Sebastian Alonzo graduated into “journeyman” status a couple of Fridays ago at the Iron Workers union hall in Norwalk. The 26-year old, who struggled to make...
Ron Miller, the head of the Los Angeles Building Trades Council, says that it is a “ritual” for trades workers to drive around Los Angeles surveying...
…mill hands, farm hands, factory hands…hands….hands…hands… — Eugene Debs Ironworker Devonte Merrifield makes sure he takes care of his hands. He jokingly points out that the...
Several years ago I produced a documentary film about young men who had been in gangs and in prison, men who had had their lives turned...
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Somerset Waters has the passion of a convert. You can hear it in his voice when he outlines why he set up the only worker-owned cooperative...
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