Paid Parental Leave Should Not Exclude Any Parents. Period.
Minnesota just passed a paid parental leave program. But the plan has no minimum benefit and entirely excludes all new parents who did not earn $3,500 in the 12 months leading up to birth.
19174 Articles by: Zola Carr
Zola Carr is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, working on a dissertation on the development of experimental brain implants for psychiatric disorder.
Violence From Both Factions in Sudan Is Proceeding at the Expense of the Sudanese People
As the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces clash with the Sudanese Armed Forces, both sides are causing widespread destruction. The Sudanese people, meanwhile, are organizing to survive and keep the struggle for democracy going.
Canada’s Prairies Are on Fire. The Time for Bold Climate Action Is Now.
Amid raging wildfires and evacuations, Alberta is grappling with political inertia. Fighting for a livable future in the climate-denying, oil-producing province will require a bold politics of anti-austerity and just transition policies.
The Fight for Affordable Insulin Reveals the Moral Bankruptcy of For-Profit Health Care
Thanks to activist efforts, corporate and government policies have begun to make insulin more affordable for diabetics. These changes were won by exposing Big Pharma’s role in the US’s unjust for-profit health care system.
Remote Work Continues to Be a Battleground in the Struggle Between Bosses and Workers
Just because not all jobs can be done at home does not mean that no jobs should be done at home. Working from home won’t end exploitation, but it’s nonetheless an important front on which labor can strive to secure improved working arrangements.
Greece’s Election Offers Little Hope for an End to Austerity
Greece votes in a general election today, with the right-wing New Democracy resisting the challenge from Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza. The campaign has been subdued, reflecting voters’ limited faith in Syriza’s ability to undo the austerity it helped to impose.
The Demonization of Homeless People Is Killing Homeless People
Homeless people in the United States are far more likely to be victims of gruesome violence than to be perpetrators. Yet the widespread demonization of the homeless would lead you to believe the exact opposite.
A Proposed Housing Plan Will Make Life Worse for Tenants in Alberta
As Canada’s conservative heartland goes to the polls, the incumbent United Conservative Party is planning to sell much of Alberta’s social housing to landlords. Under the plan, landlords will prosper, and tenants will suffer.
The Neoliberal Model Is Destroying Innovation in Science
Over the past few decades, scientists have been making fewer and fewer innovative breakthroughs. The blame lies with academia’s increasingly competitive, metrics-driven model, which discourages creativity and risk-taking.
Corporate Politicians Are Privatizing the VA, the Crown Jewel of Socialized Medicine
Amid the debt ceiling debate, House Republicans are pushing for cuts to the Veterans Administration, and corporate Democrats are continuing to support privatizing the agency’s socialized medicine. Both are an attack on working-class veterans.
American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines
Soviet Russia’s food shortages were frequently held up as proof of the Communist system’s failure to provide for its citizens. But here in hyper-capitalist America, tens of millions of people are going hungry.
Happy Birthday, Toussaint Louverture
Born on this day in 1743, Toussaint Louverture led the black uprising that resulted in the Haitian Revolution. He was born a slave, and he died in captivity, having dealt a decisive first blow to colonialism and slavery.
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece’s Debt Is More Unsustainable Than Ever
Ahead of Greece’s general election on Sunday, the business press claims that the country is bouncing back from its years of austerity. Yanis Varoufakis tells Jacobin why, for ordinary Greeks, the situation is only getting worse.
WIRED’s Gushing Pete Buttigieg Profile Is an Embarrassment to Journalism
Is journalism’s job to afflict the comfortable? Or is it to kiss the ass of the powerful with hosannas to how smart, talented, and charming they are? In the case of WIRED’s recent profile of Pete Buttigieg, it’s clearly the latter.
Imran Khan’s Arrest Has Brought Pakistan One Step Closer to the Brink
The Pakistani authorities arrested former PM Imran Khan earlier this month, provoking a violent backlash from his supporters. Pakistan is going through a profoundly dangerous crisis where miscalculation by the main political actors could result in disaster.
Greece’s Radical Left Is Fighting to Overcome Syriza’s Legacy
The campaign for Greece’s election this Sunday has been mostly uninspiring, with little hope of an end to austerity. With Syriza’s capitulation in 2015 still weighing heavily, the radical left faces an uphill struggle to overcome the mood of despair.
In Utah, the Biden Administration Is Aiding and Abetting Big Oil
The Biden administration has laid the groundwork for a financial firm to use the fragile Colorado River as a route for oil trains — amid heightened concerns about derailments that could cause untold environmental damage in a drought-prone area.
The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is Laying Bare the Lies Both Parties Tell Their Voters
Democrats want you to believe their commander-in-chief is an ultraprogressive master negotiator. The GOP wants you to believe they’re a newly reborn party of the working class. The never-ending debt ceiling standoff reveals just how absurd both tales are.
“Never Again” Is Right Now in Palestine
When Zionists use the trauma of the Holocaust to defend Israeli apartheid, they are betraying the spirit of “never again” that was supposed to ensure the world would never stand by as human rights atrocities were committed.
Turkey’s Opposition Has Loosened Erdoğan’s Grip on Power. Now They Must Unite to Break It.
Last week, Turkey’s opposition deprived autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of a first-round victory. But in order to win, the opposition will need to unify liberals and leftists around secularism and economic justice.