The former US Labor Secretary explains how wealthy elites and conflict merchants have bought off our democracy, profited from dividing us, and smothered popular progressive policies like universal healthcare.
Posted inWorking People
Is the Great Depression a glimpse of our future?
A new history of poor and working people’s struggles to survive the dark 1930s, facing economic devastation and rising global fascism, can teach us a lot about the moment we’re in today.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
‘We are human’: Surviving 423 days of genocide in Gaza
Journalist Ruwaida Amer, who has produced numerous documentary reports from Gaza for TRNN, shares an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Biden supports genocide in Gaza because he agrees with it
Fake behind-the-scenes maneuvering, supposed electoral necessity: all cover to avoid the unseemly fact that Biden simply supports genocide in Gaza because he thinks it’s justified.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Trump picks ‘deeply strange’ Kash Patel—who vowed to ‘come after people in the media’—for FBI director
Kash’s nomination to lead the FBI, said one watchdog, “represents the cronyism that is coming to define the second Trump administration. Loyalty to President-elect Trump is what matters above all else.”
Posted inWorking People
What a can of tuna can teach us about international workers’ solidarity
Fishers in Southeast Asia are combatting horrendous abuses at sea—and they’re doing it by organizing transnationally with fellow workers.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Yes, the ‘nonprofit killer’ bill is that bad—but it’s not invincible
If passed by the Senate, HR 9495 would grant the Trump administration unilateral power to target nonprofits, especially those that have been critical of Israel, as “terrorism”-supporting entities.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
The bad, the worse, and the ugly: Trump’s incoming cabinet
Billionaires, rapists, war hawks, and crackpots are about to hold the keys to power.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Union president explains the existential threat Trump poses to organized labor—and how we fight back
From plans to wreck the NLRB to the impending assault on immigrants, Trump’s policies will undermine unions from all sides. We speak about the oncoming attacks on organized labor with Jimmy Williams, general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Everything you’ve heard about this election is wrong. Dr. Richard Wolff explains why.
Wealth inequality affected voting in ways both extreme and unseen—and our ire should be aimed at the billionaire class.
