Ahead of Labor Day, we speak with journalist and sociologist Eyal Press about his new book, “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.” Press profiles workers like prison guards and oil workers — people who make their livelihoods by doing “unethical activity that society depends on and tacitly condones but doesn’t want to hear too much” about, he says.
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard as most of the city remains in the dark amid sweltering temperatures.
“If this decision doesn’t cry out for that, I don’t know what does,” the Democratic senator said after the conservative Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect.
A federal eviction moratorium has already expired, while federal unemployment benefits are set to end on Sept. 6.
A case study in how the pandemic has affected people with disabilities — and what could be done about it.
The president did exactly the opposite of what had served him well with vaccines and his stimulus plan by promising an orderly exit but delivering a deadly mess.
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by the children and family members of meatpacking workers, says conditions in the meatpacking plants during the pandemic remained as usual.
As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans.
Ahead of Labor Day, we speak with journalist and sociologist Eyal Press about his new book, “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.” Press profiles workers like prison guards and oil workers — people who make their livelihoods by doing “unethical activity that society depends on and tacitly condones but doesn’t want to hear too much” about, he says.
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard as most of the city remains in the dark amid sweltering temperatures.
“I’m very optimistic we’re going to be back,” Trump told members of his new National Faith Advisory Board as he apparently prepares to make another run.
“It’s a tremendous loss,” said one education official of the death of a 30-year teacher.
The former president is the “least intellectually curious person I’ve ever met,” says Donald Trump’s niece in scathing new attack.
The proposed action evokes Lysistrata, a play from ancient Athens where the women of Greece denied men sex until they ended a war.
The transportation secretary and former presidential candidate said he was “delighted” to become a father.
“We will not be cowed into silence by an unjust law,” declared the temple, which links reproductive freedom to religious freedom.
Rep. McCarthy and Rep. Greene baselessly claimed companies could be shut down if they comply with legal requests from the House select committee.
The CEO of Dallas-based Match said she was “shocked that I now live in a state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most of the world.
Meanwhile, other top tenants are leaving or skipping out on rent, according to The Washington Post.
Brendan Carr didn’t mention this as he defended the GOP leader’s dubious claim that it would be illegal for telecom companies to preserve call records.
The conservative Supreme Court majority has relied on emergency appeals with increasing frequency to issue rulings, with no public deliberation or notice.
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by the children and family members of meatpacking workers, says conditions in the meatpacking plants during the pandemic remained as usual.
As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans.
Ahead of Labor Day, we speak with journalist and sociologist Eyal Press about his new book, “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.” Press profiles workers like prison guards and oil workers — people who make their livelihoods by doing “unethical activity that society depends on and tacitly condones but doesn’t want to hear too much” about, he says.
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard as most of the city remains in the dark amid sweltering temperatures.
The West Virginia moderate is urging his party to “hit the pause button” on its ambitious package of spending on climate, health care, immigration and more.
The president had vowed “a whole-of-government effort” following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a restrictive abortion law in Texas to go into effect.
Jacob Chansley’s lawyer called for “patience and compassion” for his client, who he said has “genuine mental health issues.
The Texas law is “flagrantly,” “patently” and “obviously” unconstitutional, wrote Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in their dissents.
The House speaker said she’s responding to the Supreme Court’s “cowardly, dark-of-night decision” decision to greenlight Texas’ extreme anti-abortion law.