How America can lower gas prices like other countries
While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.
Fox Settles Sexual Harassment Suit For $20 Million
When asked if Ailes would be contributing a portion of the $20 million settlement, his lawyer, Susan Estrich, told The New York Times, “Mr. Ailes is not contributing anything.”
The Same Day White Armed Occupiers Were Acquitted, Peaceful Native American Activists Were Tear...
Under no circumstances should it be acceptable for peaceful protesters in North Dakota to be attacked and arrested, while armed occupiers in Oregon are either left alone or amicably reasoned with.
Student and teacher leadership will change the politics of gun control
Falling back on worn out ideology, bumper-sticker arguments, or self-serving strategizing likely won’t work. This is different.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 24
Nationwide walkout for sexual assault survivors, Kavanaugh struggles with more questions, undocumented immigrants refuse to testify on domestic abuse, and more.
How Native and white communities make alliances to protect the earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
“Toni Morrison will always be with us”: Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez...
Toni Morrison, one of the nation’s most influential writers, died this week at the age of 88 from complications of pneumonia. In...
‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama Sawant
The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”
When witnessing becomes activism
Witnesses, whether by accident or vocation, help to shape how societies understand social upheaval and respond to social change.
Burning books (or rather book companies)
Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.