. Another Labor day has passed, but America feels farther than ever from celebrating and respecting working people. The situation is bleak, the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in nearly 20 years, the consumer financial protection bureau has been gutted, labor unions strangled and stonewalled, functional unemployment may be near 25%. AI is exacerbating worker precarity, siphoning ever more money from labor to capital, meanwhile the US government spends billions upon billions on a war no one...

As Summer turns to Fall, we enter the final stretch of the primary election season, where parties pick their candidates for the showdown in November to determine control of Congress. And not a moment too soon, as this current Congress refuses to perform one of their most fundamental duties, specifically checks and balances...Nor do too many of our courts if we’re being honest. This is how in just two years we have a military fighting (and losing) an illegal war dictated solely by the...

Watch our Zoomchat with Tia Welcome to the Don't Shop on Tuesday (DSOT) Zoomchat hosted by Jacob Kravetz and Barrie Friedland. Today we're joined by Tia, founder of Urban Reads Bookstore, and publisher of State vs. Us magazine, who has made it her life's mission to improve literacy, especially for the incarcerated and children of color, who disproportionately lack the resources and support systems to become confident readers.This Summer she is bringing the "Black Line Literacy Bus",...