Category: Guest Commentary

The fast-food industry threatened to undo a major labor law in California. But even a compromise bill appeasing the industry is a huge step forward for low-wage workers.

A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.

Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation’s capitalism-fueled inequality.

more than a decade after the election of the nation’s first Black president notwithstanding, race is still the unruly, rambunctious elephant running wildly through the room.

If education is free at the point of use, why aren’t school meals?

Body counts and truck counts from the Vietnam War era are being brought back to show what a great “investment” the Ukraine War has been for the U.S.

With corporations squeezing profits, merely pointing out the mutually beneficial rewards of meeting union demands isn’t enough to sway shareholders and allies.

Silicon Valley’s wealthy elites have been secretly buying up land in one of California’s poorest counties to build a new city from the ground up. Who will stop them?

Given the broad authority of federal trial judges and her obvious pro-Trump bias, Cannon will be uniquely positioned to help the ex-President as the case unfolds.

Denying such hard truths about various racial tragedies in our nation’s history does nothing to bring us any closer to any sort of racial reconciliation.