Reform of the Gig Economy A Wonderful Thing
The California legislature's passage of rights for gig workers is biggest blow against poverty in years.
What We Can Learn from the ACORN Documentary, 'The Organizer'
Community democracy before the age of Occupy.
Poverty's 'Progressive' Cheerleaders
Legions of liberals front for the gig economy Trojan Horse of inequality. They should be ashamed.
Callousness to Inequality Is Dooming Climate Change Progress
No job should be destroyed in carbon industries unless a green job with equal benefits, wages, and rights is produced.
Justice Is A Verb: On Trump, The Need For Profiles In Courage, and Judge Wendell Griffen's Activism
Lessons in resistance from red-state Arkansas.
Time To #DeleteUber In Oakland
The company’s attempted sabotage of taxi drivers supporting immigrants should doom its move to Uptown.
To Stop Fake News, Liberals and Progressives Need to Kick the Fake-Talk Habit
In 2017, all of us should pay more attention to the journalists who are calling out fake news and fake talk.
On Class, Race, Culture and the Anti-Trump Movement
Battle lines are being drawn: between those who say Trump's win was about economics, and those who say it was about racial and cultural intolerance among white voters.
How CalSTRS Investments Influenced Workers to Vote for Donald Trump
This past Election Day, the chickens came home to roost.
Time for White Americans to be Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
On Black Lives Matter and this country's 'Original Sin.'
CalPERS Should Refuse to Fund Tobacco
The board of California's giant pension system is considering a disastrous proposal to reinvest in tobacco corporations.
True Generosity Can't Be Bought
Donating huge sums of money to charity may be philanthropy, but it is not generosity.
The Ticking Climate Bomb
Those who advocate for "engaging" with Big Oil and Big Coal to address climate change are running out of time.
Liberals' Hypocrisy on Guns
While gun control advocates decry the proliferation of mass shootings in the United States, they remain silent when the US shoots and bombs people in other nations.
Forced into the Arms of the Rich
The Friedrichs case could silence America's working class.
Financing the Destruction of American Lives
The sad and costly marriage between Wall Street and CalSTRS, the pension fund for California public school teachers.