Jewish Voice for Peace Stages Mass Civil Disobedience Against Gaza War Profiteering Outside NY Stock Exchange
More than 200 protesters were arrested while bystanders offered varied reactions to the demonstrations.
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The Economy of War: Why the Military-Industrial Complex Wins Every Election
The U.S. economy is tied more to the military-industrial complex than we may have realized.
Labor Breakthrough: Workers Winning Victories Once Thought Impossible
Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.
Death By a Thousand Cuts: Community Leaders Unite to Save Stronghold of Brooklyn Healthcare
Central Brooklyn is once again fighting to prevent the closure of SUNY Downstate Hospital.
How to Save Higher Education from Itself
New book argues that U.S. universities need to abandon tenure, faculty governance and devotion to US News & World Report College rankings.
Straight Talk About the Pain of Poverty
New book features 50-plus essays that bring personal experiences with penury into sharp focus.
Student-loan Debtors Weigh Options as Pandemic Debt-payment Moratorium Expires Oct. 1
To Pay or Not to Pay? Debtors face hard choices.
When the Welfare Rights Movement Was a Powerful Force for Uplifting the Poor
The War on Poverty comes to life in a new book that explores how welfare mothers in Las Vegas built an organizing juggernaut that transformed lives.
Bernie Sanders: It’s OK to Hate Capitalism. But, Now What?
I am an upper-middle-class Columbia student trying haplessly to justify my leftism. I can count on one hand how…
New York Tenants Demand ‘Rollbacks Not Hikes’ at Rent Guidelines Board Hearing in Brooklyn
Ahead of the Rent Guidelines Board’s final vote on June 21, tenants gathered in St. Francis College’s auditorium to…