Tuesday, June 16, 2026

This Thanksgiving, a look at the indigenous communities making the climate connection

Here are a handful of front-line organizations and efforts connecting climate change and indigenous communities.

Intuit CEO in internal video: Hiding free TurboTax was in ‘best interest of taxpayers’

After we revealed that Intuit had hidden its Free File product from search engines, the company changed its code. This was done after April 15, so it was too late for many people who could have filed for free.
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‘Democracy for sale’: Cambridge Analytica & big tech’s history of manipulating elections

“So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes.”

How wealthy have our super wealthy become?

It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.

The defeat of a school voucher program reveals the truth within the ‘school choice’...

The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools.

The incredible belief that corporate ownership does not influence media content

As Sen. Bernie Sanders (CJR, 8/26/19) has recently noted, corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting...

Meet the Parkland father keeping his son’s message alive through art

Since the murder of his son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting, Manuel Oliver has been tackling the gun violence epidemic through “nonviolent creative confrontation.”

Our celebrity president and his media accomplice

Celebrities need an accomplice and Trump understood, after all those years of collaborating with the media, that they would fulfill that role for him with wall-to-wall coverage.

An invisible essential labor force

How the migrant women farmworkers who put food on our tables are organizing for a better life after the pandemic.
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Attempt to close Al-Jazeera is an attack on freedom of expression, UN says

The channel has become part of Qatar’s grand strategy, and asking them to close it down is like asking Switzerland to close its banks.