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Will COVID-19 become a modern-day Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and spark reform?

May 20, 2020 By David Unger

The story of Triangle is one of worker power and union struggles, of organizing and movements that made a tragedy a catalyst, not just a headline. Can it happen again?

Biden’s ‘crisis presidency’ and potential for transformative change

May 20, 2020 By John Bachtell

Could he be a transformative president like Lincoln or FDR? That depends on the mass democratic movements and a mobilization like never before.

Obama, in two speeches, criticizes Trump and challenges grads to grab control

May 20, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Stepping out of what had been a self-imposed silence on discussing his successor, former President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump in speeches to graduates.

Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families

May 20, 2020 By Roberta Wood

If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the CDC, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez still be alive today?

Socialist lessons learned: The political shifts brought by the coronavirus

May 19, 2020 By David Trujillo And Ismael Parra

Let us look to new lessons that will put the wellbeing of all people first under a better system—the system of socialism.