The situation shows how President Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform has failed families who badly need direct cash assistance, writes Hannah Dreyfus.
Hoarding Welfare Funds Amid Rising Need in US
Category: Women
UN Official Also on the Board of Shell
If Jane Holl Lute’s many endeavors outside the U.N. passed the institution’s ethics test, her latest gig became more complicated, Stéphanie Fillion reports.
Rural Taliban Accept Plan to Keep Educating Afghan Girls
Hard-pressed communities have been reopening schools for girls up to grade 12, Barbara Crossette reports.
Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic
Poverty and homelessness are not eternal, writes Liz Theoharis. Life truly does not have to be this way.
The Taliban’s Choice of Interim Prime Minister
There appears to be a power struggle behind Mullah Akhund’s appointment, writes Ali A. Olomi.
John Pilger: The Great Game of Smashing Nations
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
Create Two, Three, Many Saigons
Vijay Prashad recalls the obliterations of U.S. interventionism, including any memory of the women’s rights leaders who were active in Afghanistan before 2001.
The Way Out
Caitlin Johnstone discusses what it will take for society to turn away from the path of extinction and begin working in collaboration with our ecosystem.
George W. Bush’s Shameful Legacy in Afghanistan
If there is any justice, the name of the former president will live in infamy, writes James Bovard.
Changing the Way the Military Handles Sexual Assault
If it took the death of a young woman to launch a relatively timid bill, Andrea Mazzarino asks what it will take to move the judging of violent crimes entirely off military bases and into the regular court system.