Tag: opinion
OPINION: A new kind of slavery
By REV. PETE HILL
Pastor, United Methodist Church
Windsor, MO
In virtually every city in our nation the unemployed, desperate for any income are turning to labor...
OPINION: When did Republicans start hating facts?
A straight line runs from Reagan to Trump
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Republicans spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a runaway pandemic; now...
OPINION: ‘Pathetic’ COVID relief bill includes billions in gifts for the...
By JAKE JOHNSON
In late-night votes just hours after nearly 5,600 pages of legislative text were released, the U.S. Congress approved trillions of dollars’ worth...
OPINION: ‘Workers to write the next chapter in America’s comeback’
By RICHARD TRUMKA
President, AFL-CIO
We know this will be a holiday season like no other.
Many of us will be breaking with our longstanding tradition, staying...
OPINION: Shared sacrifice
By TOM CONWAY
President
United Steelworkers
Chad Longpre Shepersky repeatedly took COVID-19 tests—and waited on pins and needles for results each time—during a coronavirus outbreak at Guardian...
YOUR LETTERS: Trump’s abuse of the Postal Service fueled his downfall
One key reason I believe President Donald Trump did not get re-elected is because he wanted to tear down the U.S. Postal Service, as...
Trump strikes back, trashing the nation on his way out the...
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We all knew that Donald Trump would react badly to defeat. But his refusal to concede, the destructiveness of his temper tantrum...
OPINION: As stimulus runs out, 56% of U.S. households are worried...
BY MIKE LUDWIG
Truthout
More than half of households in the United States are not “very confident” that they can afford to put food on the...
OPINION: Corporations take a back seat as Joe Biden readies his...
By PHIL MATTERA
Among the many challenges Joe Biden’s administration will have to confront after Donald Trump ends his temper tantrum is deciding what posture...
OPINION: The work still left
By DAVID A. COOK
President
UFCW Local 655
Election Day is barely in our rear-view mirror and there’s still so much we don’t know. While some races...