Nancy Folbre, professor emerita of economics at UMASS-Amherst, writes at The New York Times’ Economix: “A stay-at-home spouse who specializes in unpaid work also increases household living standards, by reducing the need to purchase services like child c…
Petula Dvorak writes for The Washington Post (TRIGGER WARNING): “You know how you can get all wrapped up in a good summer novel and have to remind yourself where you are when you put it down?
Well, America has made it pretty hard this past week to rem…
Phyllis Bennis writes at the blog for Institute for Policy Studies: “If I was really optimistic, I’d say that President Obama is hoping that Congress will follow the example of the British parliament – and vote against his proposed military strike on Syr…
Ben Jealous writes for USA Today: “Three hundred years before a multiracial coalition stormed Washington’s National Mall to demand equal rights and economic justice, the working men of Gloucester County, Va., made a stand of their own based on class, not…
Esmé E. Deprez writes for Bloomberg: “At least 58 U.S. abortion clinics — almost 1 in 10 — have shut or stopped providing the procedure since 2011 as access vanishes faster than ever amid a Republican-led push to legislate the industry out of existence…