Opinions
Labor rights for all: The fight against modern-day slavery. The domestic workers’ rights movement offers powerful lessons for the broader fight agai...
Women from 40 countries—nannies, housecleaners, community organizers, and trade unionists—gathered in Uruguay at the end of October to establish the first global federation of domestic workers....
In defense of food stamps. A successful poverty program is being unfairly criticized. Here are the facts.
We are entering a divisive debate on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), popularly known as food stamps. Unless facts drive the debate, it will be destructive as well....
Budget grief for the poor and jobless
More than four years into an economic recovery, poverty and unemployment remain elevated, while the income gains from economic growth have flowed almost exclusively to the top 1 percent of earners. Those are not the hallmarks of a healthy economy, let alone a just society or a stable democracy....
A war on the poor
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has done some surprising things lately. First, he did an end run around his state’s Legislature — controlled by his own party — to proceed with the federally funded expansion of Medicaid that is an important piece of Obamacare. ...
You won’t love these McSubsidies. Taxpayers will shell out $1.2 billion this year to support workers subjected to McDonald’s miserly wages and...
Let us all now bow before the god of free enterprise, whose awesomeness was revealed in a recent news release announcing that the divine managers of fast-food deity McDonald’s achieved a profit of $1.5 billion in just three months this summer....
GMO Wars: The global battlefield. The case against GMOs has strengthened steadily over the last few years, even as the industry has expanded all over ...
The GMO wars escalated earlier this month when the 2013 World Food Prize was awarded to three chemical company executives, including Monsanto executive vice president and chief technology officer, Robert Fraley, responsible for development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)....
NGOs must give up power
The international development Non Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are rightly very proud of their history: they have saved lives, helped people get through the toughest moments, and shown those who feel alone that others care. But if NGOs are to help contribute to a better future, they will need ...
Berta Cáceres is still alive: In the face of escalating repression, Honduran indigenous groups are standing against transnational plunder
Berta, as she is fondly known by her many friends in Honduras and beyond, is a Lenca indigenous woman, and one of the founding directors of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)....
Genetically modified foods: What is and isn’t true
Welcome to Unearthed, an effort that will dig deep to try and figure out what’s true and what isn’t in the debate about our food supply....
Too high a price for courage: The Honduran government should stop repressing indigenous leaders like Berta Cáceres
Berta Cáceres, an internationally respected leader of the movement for indigenous rights, is now living as a fugitive. The Honduran government ordered this soft-spoken dynamo imprisoned on September 20....
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