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Labor

Possible Futures?

An excerpt from Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First

October 8, 2026 • by Nancy Folbre

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a streetlight. Another economist comes along and offers to help, and after a fruitless ...

Labor

Caring About Care

A conversation with economist Nancy Folbre about her book Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First

October 8, 2026 • by Emma Robertson and Nancy Folbre

States that have more pro-care policies have longer life expectancy and have better mental health. ...

Health care

When the Young Lords and Black Panthers Occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

How my father, the Panthers, and the Young Lords negotiated for the improved care that became the blueprint for the patient’s bill of rights

July 29, 2026 • by Maurice “Mopreme” Shakur

The below excerpt is taken from This Thug’s Life (Dafina, 2026), the first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur—written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper’s big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur. In ...

When the Young Lords and Black Panthers Occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

Genocide

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

Sexual violence and the destruction of medical infrastructure are not separate catastrophes

December 2, 2025 • by Ayotunde Giwa

On October 28, 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. Satellite images show what Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified as bodies scattered across the hospital grounds. Videos filmed by RSF fighters themselves show militia walking through ransacked wards, stepping over piles of dead ...

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

Podcast

How We Fight

Epidosde 64: A conversation with Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about why the campaign for reproductive justice is also a struggle for our collective future

December 4, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Why Now? host Claire Potter interviews Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about abortion in the United States today....

Body & Mind

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

May 15, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

Health Care

Possible Futures?

An excerpt from Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First

Caring About Care

A conversation with economist Nancy Folbre about her book Making Care Work: Why Our Economy Should Put People First

When the Young Lords and Black Panthers Occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx

How my father, the Panthers, and the Young Lords negotiated for the improved care that became the blueprint for the patient’s bill of rights

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

Sexual violence and the destruction of medical infrastructure are not separate catastrophes

How We Fight

Epidosde 64: A conversation with Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger about why the campaign for reproductive justice is also a struggle for our collective future

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

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