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Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class is subverting democracy and controlling the lives of billions through massive investments in everything from food to war.
In 1946 the Truman administration made a promise to striking coal miners: as part of a deal to resume work, the government would sponsor a nationwide survey of health and labor conditions in mining camps. One instrumental member of the survey team was photographer Russell Lee. Lee had made his name during the Depression, when, alongside Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he used his camera to document agrarian life for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Now he trained his lens on miners and their families to show their difficult circumstances despite their essential contributions to the nation’s first wave of postwar growth.
Emily Dalton became a part-time social worker at Hoboken Public Library while finishing her master’s at Rutgers School of Social Work in 2022; she transitioned to full-time work at the library in 2023.
When social worker Lisa Keefauver became a widow in 2011, she was alarmed to discover that even though 100 percent of us experience loss, we’re living in a grief illiterate world. In her work as a therapist, and in her search for help in the wake of her own loss, Keefauver began to see how the misguided stories we consume about grief lead to unnecessary suffering.
Far-right activists hold an “Enough is Enough” protest on August 2 in Sunderland, England. After the murders of three girls in Southport earlier this week, misinformation spread via social media and fueled acts of violent rioting from far-right actors across England.
Scammers are compounding tactics by using fake Amazon or PayPal tech support emails and text messages to get you to connect with an imposter Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who will try to convince you that your Social Security number (SSN) or record is compromised.
Continuing a ‘long and ugly history’ of British race riots, a mob attacks police outside a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers.