Media will need to shake up their reporting on how workers fight, because it looks like West Virginia won’t be the end of this sort of action.
Category: CounterSpin
The ability of workers to build collective power is central in Janus v. AFSCME, a case currently before the Supreme Court. We talk about how efforts to weaken workers’ voice masquerade as efforts to strengthen it, and how we can see through them.
If Americans really want to stop being “the only country where this happens,” which keeps officially claiming there’s “no way to prevent” it, it will require not just deep examination of the multiple roots of mass violence of this sort, but also an approach to political processes that keeps its eye on the prize of real change.
What do you do with a press corps that pauses from raising alarms about North Korea’s warmongering to raise alarms about North Korea’s peacemongering?
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It should now surprise no one that Trump’s infrastructure plans—promoted in his State of the Union—have more to do with private riches than with public works.
Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in a show of resistance to the Trump administration, highlighting a range of threats to women’s human rights and well-being; central among those is the assault on abortion access.
Whether it’s Haitians or Muslims or Mexicans, Donald Trump’s actions seem clearly driven by hatred. Media’s job goes beyond identifying this animus, to countering the damage it inflicts with thoughtful, humane reporting.
A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may fundamentally undercut the ability of women (or anyone) to band together in the workplace to fight harassment, pay inequity and discrimination.
Different people have very different visions of the way forward for Puerto Rico—depending, to put it simply, on whether you think servicing debt matters more than human beings.
At the end of the year, we revisit just a few of the conversations it’s been our pleasure to bring you.
The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts.
