A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”
The South is rising again
The real story is that a fresh, "Reclaim the South" movement of young African-American populists is emerging, kindling long-suppressed hope in the racially scarred Deep South.
Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
How employers punish workers for forming unions
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would better protect workers from illegal bullying and retaliation during the organizing process.
Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.
Little Free Library’s not-so-little commitment to getting the word out
These book-sharing boxes promote literacy and strengthen communities.
Google says it bans gun ads. It actually makes money from them.
The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
How to counter the growing threat of agent provocateurs
Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.
Do good fences make good neighbors?
Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?
Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx woman died at...
Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.