Opinion

Coronavirus and capitalist crisis: The struggle of (and for) our lives
March 27, 2020 By Joe Sims
The country is faced with more than a health crisis. It’s also an economic crisis, political, social, and environmental crisis.
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For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything
March 25, 2020 By Roberta Wood
Public health experts are united in advising Americans: “Keep your ass at home.” Trump’s panicky insistence on sabotaging that strategy is more than just ignorance and irresponsibility. It’s not the “economy” in general he’s in a...
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I’m an “essential” worker…or, how I learned to love negative solidarity
March 24, 2020 By Michael Villanova
Like millions of other “essential” workers, this is the predicament we’re in: Stay home and possibly starve or go to work and risk the health of thousands of people.
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Can Democrats widen their appeal to embrace rural working-class America?
March 23, 2020 By Tim Libretti
It would certainly go a long way toward addressing the increasingly severe class stratifications in our society and working-class issues overall.
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World faces virus and new Great Depression, Trump cries “Poor me!”
March 23, 2020 By C.J. Atkins
States, hospitals, and the feds are all in competition for supplies, but Trump won't break the golden rule of capitalism: Don't touch the free market.
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