Farm Workers Are Dying. Blame Our Exploitative Food System.

    Two farm workers died during a recent heatwave in Washington and Oregon. While this is outrageous, it’s not unusual. Farm workers die in hot weather every year.  …

Separating Parents and Children is Inhumane

We’ve reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government’s war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant…

When You Start Listening, You Learn Things

As white people across the nation criticize Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who “take a knee” for the national anthem, they ought to know something first. White people in…

América Needs Workers and They Need Health Care

Our country is founded on a myth that anyone can succeed so long as they work hard. That’s the story of Alexander Hamilton that has swept Broadway: how a “bastard…