The shecession: Women face staggering job & income losses amid the pandemic’s economic crisis
“The reason for this is because women are over-represented in the hardest-hit sectors: service, leisure/hospitality, education and healthcare services.”
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 14, 2018
DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.
Muslim Activist in Paris Condemns Attacks, Rising Islamophobia
Reports of Islamophobia have already emerged following the Paris attacks, and fears of attacks on Muslims in Paris have risen.
5 ways small actions have huge power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
Ties of blood
Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.
HBO and MSNBC drop Mark Halperin due to sexual harassment allegations
Once revered as a highly respected journalist, Halperin has fallen to the lowly depths of other alleged and admitted sexual predators.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 5
Over 300 arrested at Senate offices during #CancelKavanaugh sit in, who talked to the FBI in the Kavanaugh investigation, Virgin Atlantic flies first commercial plane on recycled waste carbon gas and more.
As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes
With the climate crisis now escalating, and the federal government withdrawing, help from local muscle and outside charities is about all the disaster relief that Indian Country can expect for the foreseeable future.
Bon Jovi feeds the hungry opening the doors to his third community restaurant
"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."
America’s Shkreli problem
What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?