The Gospel of Work

Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you (January 15, 2018)


The solution to just about everything: Working less (April 22, 2016)


The Way We Work Is Killing Us (April 24, 2018)


9-5 Is Out. Try The 1-6 Instead. (January 24, 2018)


The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant (November 7, 2016)


Workism Is Making Americans Miserable (February 24, 2019)


The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less (May 29, 2019)


Having fun is a virtue, not a guilty pleasure (March 2, 2019)


You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS (May 15, 2018)


As The Pandemic Recedes, Millions Of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' (June 24, 2021)

Gentle reminder that the 40 hour work week is outdated & was designed with the assumption someone else was going to be always taking care of cooking, cleaning & household errands. It wasn’t designed for you to be doing it all & if you’re having a hard time, you’re not a failure. (November 29, 2020)

TWITTER: Am I the only one that sees a problem with working 8-9 hours a day and then going home to having about 4 hours to yourself which includes getting ready for the next day??? This is not life… (July 21, 2022)

Most US workers struggle with their schedules. Here’s why employers should care (June 10, 2025)

The Manufacture of Consent

Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening (January 17, 2018)

Healthcare (or the Lack Thereof)

Looking at the conservative ‘heritage’ of some core ACA features (February 28, 2017)

Go Fund Yourself (January 2018)

Lottery winner dies weeks after cashing in $1 million scratch-off ticket (January 30, 2018)

Back to the Health Policy Drawing Board (March 16, 2018)


A Baby Was Treated With A Nap And A Bottle Of Formula. The Bill Was $18,000 (July 2, 2018)


A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills (October 4, 2018)


Carrie Ann Lucas, Disability Rights Activist and Attorney, Dies Following Denial From Insurance Company (February 25, 2019)


Medi-Cal recipient, 101, evicted from Santa Rosa assisted living facility for being unable to pay (May 2, 2019)


RAND Study: Hospitals Charging The Privately Insured 2.4 Times What They Charge Medicare Patients (May 11, 2019)


As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Coverage (May 16, 2019)


Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than in Cuba (January 18, 2019)

 

 

 

I honest-to-god got a bill for the EMTs telling me my son was dead. This is just among the zillion goddamn reasons we need universal healthcare (May 24, 2021)

The Government Just Admitted An Inconvenient Truth (February 25, 2022)

Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID (June 13, 2022)

That Starbucks is offering reproductive healthcare for its employees but warning it will not do so for unionized employees shows employer-provided healthcare for what it is, which is a labor disciplining device. (June 27, 2022)

TWITTER: I have spent the last 3 days trying to get chemo approved for a patient, and this whole time my patient is not getting treatment as his cancer progresses. An insurance company has decided they know better than the patients oncologist what chemotherapy regimen they should be on. (July 20, 2022)

Babies Are Dying of Syphilis. It’s 100% Preventable. (November 1, 2021)

Healthcare, college education, and childcare started getting worse decades ago. Now we're all finally feeling it. (April 8, 2023)

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

Before the Fall of the Roman Republic, Income Inequality and Xenophobia Threatened Its Foundations (November 16, 2017)


What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic (January 5, 2019)

The Genocide of Farmers

Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers? (December 6, 2017)


American Farmers Are in Crisis (September 14, 2018)


How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms (March 9, 2019)


U.S. Farmer Income Drops Most Since 2016 as Trade War Losses Mount (April 29, 2019)


Black farmers were deliberately sold ‘fake seeds’ in scheme to steal their land: report (July 10, 2018)

Chris Hedges speaks (2013 - 2019)

The Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat (December 17, 2017)


Thought Police for the 21st Century (January 21, 2018)


Guns and Liberty (February 25, 2018)


The Crime of Being Poor and Black (April 29, 2018)


The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom (July 15, 2018)


Let's Get This Class War Started (October 21, 2013)


Israel’s Stranglehold on American Politics (March 10, 2019)


The Martyrdom of Julian Assange (April 11, 2019)


The Artist as Prophet (August 5, 2019)