Tag: Health Insurance
Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice
Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations with electronic, funk-rock, and experimental...
Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees
San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent contractors, as well as ordering...
Generations of activism: Checking in with Cleve Jones
The LGBTQ community has already survived the tragic loss of Harvey Milk, the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the AIDS pandemic, and decades of discriminatory legislation.
But lifelong activist...
How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID
One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door in that part of Havana's...
Foreign Correspondent: Trump v. Biden on foreign policy
We all know that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been a disaster. But is Joe Biden’s any better?
Trump promised to stop America's endless wars, but has stationed some...
Foreign correspondent: I was under a brief coronavirus quarantine
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
On February 22, I left Iran after a week of covering the country’s parliamentary elections. Ten days later, my nose started running...
Spend Valentine’s in an indie Village of Love
Listen up, San Francisco.....This year Valentines' Day doesn't have to be filled with the normcore angst of hunting down chocolates, bidding for pre-wrapped roses, fighting through "Bros" in the...
CNN gives the GOP its talking points
The moderators at tonight’s Democratic debate pretty much wrote the Republicans’ talking points. It was stunning: Over and over, they asked Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren whether they...
Gig economy horror stories frame supes hearing
The litany of horror stories at today’s hearing on the gig economy was alarming. One Uber driver said he used to get paid $50 for a trip to the...
The end of Joe Biden as a serious candidate for president
The second round of the Great Debate tonight -- and it's a flawed concept -- started with a kind of bogus question about socialism. John Hickenlooper, the former governor...
