Tag: Poverty

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.

Ron Howard’s Netflix adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy continues a long tradition of seeing hillbillies as a symbol of pristine American whiteness.

Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?

Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine avocado farmers.

St. Louis is a microcosm of American structural racism.

Conservatives have long been sounding the alarm about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance.

Despite President Bolsonaro's COVID-19 denialism, a small Brazilian city has one of the most ambitious responses in the world.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.