The real story of those poor Americans targeted, mistakenly, by Mexican gangs in Matamoros is that people go all the time to northern Mexico for medical procedures because it is much cheaper to do them there than here. This is a 2019 story on the...
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One of the points I've made repeatedly about the recent wave of organizing is that it engaging in performatively liberal companies who use those politics to attract both liberal workers.
Is there anything more nonsensical than dental coverage being separate from health coverage? As if your mouth is not part of your body. It's just complete nonsense. And yet, here.
There are so many social movements that don't get enough attention in our historical memory. One of those is the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican movement in New York and other cities inspired by the Black Panthers and other nationalist revolutionary movements that were as...
On July 1, 1962, doctors in Saskatchewan went on strike to try and stop the province from creating a universal healthcare system. A reminder that not all strikes are inherently.
Definitely not a picture of infrastructure by Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0 But you wouldn't know that if you listened to the GOP, which can't decide whether "transportation" only includes.
Miscarriages are just such a sad thing. We all know people who had them, ourselves, our families, our friends. It's worth noting, as Jessica Zucker does here, that the cost of miscarriages is not only emotional, but also financial. But what is rarely, if ever...
One thing I've stated again and again, especially when I talk to reporters, is that the union movement and the supporters of the workers' struggle more generally has to organize.
French President Emmanuel Macron, gestures as he poses for a photograph after the recording of his New Year's speech at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018. (AP.
I was reading the obituary today for Jack Geiger, the socially minded doctor who put his expertise to use in order to solve poverty. It's really fascinating. In 1970, a documentary called Out in the Rural was made highlighting his rural health clinic in Bolivar...
Too often, the left has an idealistic view of unions as leftist fighting organizations. Very occasionally, they are. More commonly, they are complex beasts with a variety of self-interested positions,.
Not that anyone cares anymore, but the United Auto Workers strike is entering its third week tomorrow. I was on NPR's Weekend Edition today to talk about the UAW and.