Thursday, April 18, 2024

Amazon’s worst bargain yet

The retail behemoth wants your local government's business, but there's a hidden cost to low prices: Local businesses get shut out.

73 years after US dropped atom bomb on Nagasaki, survivor warns about threat of...

In 1954, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people and forever changing the lives of those who survived the nuclear attack.

What wildfires do to our minds

A Northern California community offers mental health first-aid to survivors of devastating fires.

Dark matter: Too-big-to-fail hibernates in opaque derivatives markets

What you’re seeing here is a dilemma that market purists never quite resolve: They say they want market transparency, and they oppose government regulation.

The rollback of EPA Clean Car Standards will cost you at least $500 a...

Taking away all of these protections will cost Americans upwards of $260 billion annually in climate, health, and fuel impacts.
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Documenting Hate: New doc lays bare the violent white supremacy that exploded in Charlottesville

It became the biggest and deadliest white supremacist rally in the United States in decades.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Baltimore set to become first major American city to outlaw water privatization, House Democrats fight back against Big Pharma, Republicans want to give Trump the power to shut down media, and more.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Infowars gets banned, U.S. Fish and Wildlife turns against saving the bees, and more.
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Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old West Bank activist jailed for 8 months for slapping Israeli...

Known to some as the Rosa Parks of Palestine, Tamimi became a hero to Palestinians and people around the world last year.