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The Housing Crisis You’re Not Hearing About
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (610+ words) Availability and quality are two sides of the same coin. In 2022, I was part of a research team that mailed 2,500 surveys to older St. Louis, Missouri, homeowners to determine their need for home repairs. The cover letter listed my phone…...
‘Nurses Are Fighters, and We Aren’t Going Anywhere’
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (479+ words) UnityPoint Health executives refuse to certify Iowa nurses’ union election. In December 2025, nurses at UnityPoint Health-Des Moines voted 871 to 666 in favor of unionizing with Teamster Local 90 as the United Nurses of Iowa. But seven months later, executives at UnityPoint are…...
Survivors’ Justice Needs More Than Just Laws
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (410+ words) Old notions are still preventing victims from getting a second chance. by Devin A. Giordano But the popularity of these laws raise a troubling question: Can the same institutions that have historically discredited women’s claims of abuse now fairly decide which…...
Helping Workers Beat the Heat
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (994+ words) Mamdani’s initiative jumpstarts an essential discussion about the need to address a potentially deadly problem. by Eleanor J. Bader In late June, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued Executive Order 17 to publicize the risks of excessive heat. The order…...
Locals Resist Data Centers; Democrats Are Too Timid
1+ week, 4+ day ago (265+ words) Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower. There’s a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think they’re entitled to turn America’s farmlands and rural communities into their personal domain of predatory artificial intelligence data centers. But…...
Nonprofits Must Come Together, Right Now
1+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House Nonprofits can respond to current political circumstances with a clear sense of their values. Let us turn today’s threats into opportunities to come together. These are uncertain times for America’s large and significant nonprofit sector....
The Evolution of the ‘Sandwich Generation’
1+ week, 5+ day ago (408+ words) What we’ve got right now is more of a “burnt panini generation.” That’s not what I feel like is happening to me and my cohort. This isn’t “almost pleasant.” What we’ve got is more of a “burnt panini generation.” The…...
Fighting the Forces of Greed and Destruction
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (700+ words) In April, Senate Republicans withdrew a moratorium on mining in the Boundary Waters. Minnesotans are fighting back. So it was a gut punch to see the U.S. Senate decide by one vote to overturn federal protections against toxic mining in the…...
Restore Voting Rights for Former Prisoners
2+ week, 1+ day ago (708+ words) The American promise of liberty and justice for all is not being realized by the four million people with felonies who are unable to vote. Michael Fleshman (CC BY-SA 2.0) Thousands march in New York City to defend voting rights during…...
Finding a Voice Behind Bars
2+ week, 1+ day ago (291+ words) A small press offers writers support in telling stories of life during and after incarceration. by Eleanor J. Bader Several hundred of Prewitt’s letters are now also compiled in two volumes: Trying to Catch Lightning in a Jar (2025) and Catching Lightning:…...