Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12
Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.
2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at Native American forum
Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
Former Neo-Nazi: President Trump may be complicit in growing threat of white supremacy
"This is not an isolated incident. This is not a fringe problem. This is a transnational terrorist alliance."
A jubilee moment in pandemic America?
The poetry of a movement to change this country...
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...
Fox News hasn’t mentioned possible election fraud in North Carolina for days. Here’s what...
Despite harping on baseless “voter fraud” myths for years, Fox News has virtually ignored this apparent case of actual election fraud.
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US
"Why is it acceptable for the United States to have the power to even begin to give even a proposal to extradite somebody whose crime is to expose to the public materials that people in power don’t want them to see?"
Amerika 2019: A Woody Allen film?
In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the...
59 percent in US living paycheck to paycheck as corporate profits surge to all-time...
"A large share of consumers are essentially living on the razor's edge."
NRA’s news outlet smears Women’s March as violent by equating it with a completely...
The NRA seems to be unaware that the Women’s March made headlines because it was peaceful and there were “exactly zero arrests” that day.