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US schools are now more racially segregated than they've been in decades. And the Trump administration is embracing policies that will make things even worse.
Candidates running on platforms of Medicare for All, free college and a living wage emerged victorious on Tuesday.
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 10-5 to support Gina Haspel's nomination today, despite the fact that her facilitation of torture under the Bush administration should disqualify her from assuming the role of CIA director. The full Senate will now make the final decision on Haspel, who has refused to state that torture is both immoral and illegal.
After assuring employees that Toys "R" Us is on a sound footing, the private equity firms behind the company's leveraged buyout filed for bankruptcy, costing 33,000 retail employees their livelihoods. Now those employees are demanding severance pay from the equity firms.
In the absence of mass movements pressing for the interests of the people, neoliberalism is the default governance in a capitalist society. However, a new narrative can build the economic foundation of the next system to succeed neoliberal capitalism. The individualism that neoliberalism promotes is being replaced by social consciousness.