Eve Ottenberg

  • A nation of savage inequality

    Roughly 38,000 US veterans eat from garbage cans every day. So Fox News reported back in January, advocating a helping hand for homeless veterans....

  • Forever chemicals

    Forever chemicals are called forever for a reason. They take hundreds of years to disappear, and cancer-causing forever chemicals are everywhere....

  • Genocide

    When the United States stole $7 billion from Afghanistan on February 11, that was no mere crime of robbery. It was a war crime and a crime against...

  • Covid-free US?

    America, we are told, is done with Covid. Who tells us? Businessmen, the politicians they purchase, economists, pundits, pollsters and know-it-alls...

  • Exploiting labour

    Five decades of neoliberal plunder by US corporations and local oligarchs, backed up by the lurking menace of US-trained death squads and...

  • Rightwing horror

    The trauma that was Trump never completely recedes. Every time the Democrats flub something, which happens often, the possibility of Trump’s...

  • The vaccine rollout

    At the rate we’re vaccinating against Covid in the US, it will take 10 years for the entire population to receive shots. To counter this, on...

  • No economic relief

    With tens of millions unemployed, inevitable eviction merely postponed for a few months and low-wage jobs and small businesses drying up like the...

  • The Covid-19 testing

    On August 20, the Trump regime prohibited the FDA from regulating Covid-19 tests. This could cause bad tests and false results, as was possibly the...

  • Future Earth

    The only good thing to say about Covid is that it caused carbon emissions to drop. Not enough to save humanity from catastrophic climate change, but...

  • Corona petri dish

    Now is the time to empty the prisons. With over two million people incarcerated, the vast majority for nonviolent crimes, prisoners are packed like...

  • Displacement in Chicago

    Beginning in 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled an ambitious plan to shutter 330 underperforming public schools. The plan was soon whittled...