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Trump plan to send $5K to every adult projected to cost $1.2T

Trump plan to send $5K to every adult projected to cost $1.2T

For further reading:  GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside Opposition is not enough: Authoritarian crisis requires a movement that votes Dead canaries everywhere: The impending collapse under Trump

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Faithful memory of 9/11 demands we stand up to lies

Faithful memory of 9/11 demands we stand up to lies

Marking the 25th anniversary of September 11th this weekend has taken me back to my own experience of that fall morning in 2001. I was in the middle of a prayer service, having just held my infant son, when we heard the news of the first plane hitting the North Tower of the World Trade […]

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Nurses tell Prime Healthcare to end sub-prime care

Nurses tell Prime Healthcare to end sub-prime care

CHICAGO—Save one life, and you’re a hero. Save a hundred, and you’re “just” a nurse. That sentiment was on full display Thursday, Sept. 3, when nurses at three Prime Healthcare hospitals—Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago, Olympia Fields Hospital in Olympia Fields, Ill., and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine—staged a one-day strike. […]

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‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play

‘A Case for the Existence of God’ theater review: Well-crafted but ill-named play

Before this atheistic aesthete indulges, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, in a rant about this play’s egregiously pompous hifalutin name, I feel compelled to confess that:  1.) A Case for the Existence of God is certainly a well-written, well-acted, and well-directed drama, and I recommend that serious theatergoers see it; 2.) The award-winning playwright […]

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Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year

Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year

WASHINGTON—The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement. A new report from LaborLab, which in turn mined the data it received from the Economic Policy Institute and from forms the Labor Department requires such “persuaders” to file, breaks down the sum into $1.5 billion for “union avoidance” […]

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Trump and Xi: Two Views on international relations

Trump and Xi: Two Views on international relations

It should come as no surprise to the knowledgeable observer that the current state of international affairs is, to put it mildly, a mess. In recent weeks, we have seen how the leadership of the United States government, bogged down in a war that it cannot win, is spewing threats and insults against countries, both […]

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9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war

9/11 legacy: A quarter-century of endless war

Twenty-five years ago, 2,977 people were killed when hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Five years ago, People’s World asked how to measure the two decades of war launched in response. The question still doesn’t have a clean answer, because those wars never really stopped. They simply […]

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Beyond Iran: America’s long record of Middle East blunders

Beyond Iran: America’s long record of Middle East blunders

The U.S. government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence. Washington is rapidly losing power and status in the Middle East, a decline that could produce a wider domino effect, reverberating around the world. The latest expression of this hubris came from […]

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Incumbents prevailed in Massachusetts primaries, but divisions simmer

Incumbents prevailed in Massachusetts primaries, but divisions simmer

At first glance, Massachusetts primaries seemed to favor incumbents, but a closer look shows deep-set divisions in the voter base and campaign strategies from challengers that failed to meet the historic moment. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey easily dispatched outgoing House Rep. Seth Moulton. Though a moderate through the early days of his 50-year […]

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GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside

GOP mid-term ‘Convention’: More false promises inside, protests planned outside

DALLAS—The Republicans’ two-day “Midterm convention” opened in Dallas Sept. 9 and featured a promise by Trump, made after two-thirds of the audience had already left the arena, that he would send every American a $5,000 check if the GOP wins the midterm elections. Vice President Vance defended the promise when he spoke with the press, […]

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