Without any mechanisms to adjust for rising prices, the real value of the federal minimum wage hit a 66-year low in 2023, say the authors. It’s now worth 42 percent less than its highest point in 1968.
If Julian Assange is extradited he will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
On Veteran’s Day, Shannon Bow O’Brien recounts what happened to the Bonus Army March by WWI veterans who, by the winter of 1931, were desperately short of cash.
In part three of this eight-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel reads the Pentagon Papers during a Senate subcommittee hearing and the truth of what the U.S. was doing hit him hard.
When war is profit, death ensures a healthy bottom line, writes Christian Sorensen in this final installment of his five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.