In this reposted column, Chris Hedges argues that the capitalist elites want everyone else to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
The capitalist elites want everyone else to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits. For a prime example of this, check out what Uber and Lyft have done to taxi drivers, and their own drivers, in New York City.
More than a foot of snow is expected in some areas as the third major storm in two weeks slams the Northeast, and Amtrak suspends service between Boston and New York City.
Sen. Bernie Sanders administers the oath of office in an outdoor ceremony held in freezing weather at City Hall Park. De Blasio declares that the "deepest, truest stakeholders of this town" are the working people.
The odds of becoming a homicide victim in dense and diverse New York City this year were about the same as in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota last year.
The rapper has money, power and compassion. If Donald Trump can lead America, perhaps Jay-Z could, too.
“Trump you failed to protect your nation,” Akayed Ullah posted on Facebook, according to the criminal complaint, which said he also told law enforcement officers, “I did it for the Islamic State.”
What the paintings by its prisoners tell us about our humanity and theirs.
A former staff writer at the alternative newsweekly reminisces about the paper’s golden age in the 1980s.
The author imagines an alternative strategy for then-President George W. Bush on Sept. 12, 2001, and beyond.
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