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.”
Organizers are reeling yet determined following Supreme Court’s dangerous expansion of gun rights
After celebrating the Senate’s gun control legislation, advocates are planning new actions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on concealed carry.
1,000+ arrested as Extinction Rebellion protests in London enter second week
"The world we are leaving for the children and grandchildren is going to be horrendous and we let it happen. It happened on our watch. So we have to stand up and fight or lie down and fight."
The border fetish
The U.S. frontier as a zone of profit and sacrifice.
The struggle for what’s essential
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.
Bill, Melinda, and the burden of grand fortune
All relationships, not just romantic couplings, tend to be twisted by wealth.
The whole damn system is guilty as hell: Taking control of police
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.
APA Suggests Boosting Creativity Can Improve Health Efficiently
Creativity is highly contagious, the more it is performed, the more it spreads. Ever wondered about the miracles of creativity and art...
Discontent by design
Like peace and love, such happiness rests within, it is the birthright of everyone, and yet, lost in the hollow world of consumption, competition and uncertainty many, if not most people, experience this inherent state fleetingly at best.
In Memphis, an attack on both immigrant rights and press freedom
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – jailed journalists around the globe should be free to do their work, outside the prison walls that confine them today.