An economic no-brainer: Empower women, empower economies
As the first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a leader in advocating for increased investment and action toward...
10 good things about a TERRIBLE year
As we head into the new year, let’s keep ourselves inspired by the hard work of folks at home and abroad who gave us something to cheer about for 2017.
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world leaders at UN...
"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
Photo essay: Eight reasons students walked out over gun laws
“All of these students will be voting in the next four years. We will be in the driver’s seat.”
We must not dance, Harry Belafonte understood, to a billionaire beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
Breitbart’s Kris Kobach suggests deporting DACA recipients and their parents to keep families together
“If we’re worried about keeping families together, then the illegal alien parents who brought them here should also be removed to the home country along with the DACA recipient alien.”
Social media giants’ climate misinformation policies leave users ‘in the dark’: report
"Despite half of U.S. and U.K. adults getting their news from social media, social media companies have not taken the steps necessary to fight industry-backed deception," reads the report.
Can community schools rescue a ‘troubled’ district?
A contentious contract negotiation between teachers and a district in the Washington D.C. suburbs could foretell whether a transformative strategy for school improvement can dislodge entrenched leadership practices.
Detaining immigrant children – a billion-dollar industry
“It was never intended to be a foster care system with more than 10,000 children in custody at an immediate cost to the federal taxpayer of over $1 billion dollars per year.”
Western media accuse China of wanting to do what US does to other countries
A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.