Border agents caught posting racist, sexist messages about migrants & AOC in secret Facebook...
Customs and Border Protection has opened an investigation into the posting of racist and xenophobic messages by current and former Border Patrol...
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Earliest Earth overshoot day ever, it's been over a year since MSNBC mentioned the war in Yemen, Trump wants to strip security clearance of those who have criticized him, and more.
In photos: As fury grows, tens of thousands rally across us demanding immediate action...
Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention...
We need publicly owned utilities
California’s wildfires and blackouts show the dangers of entrusting our power to for-profit corporations.
A New Year’s development resolution
As 2016 comes to an end, so should the old modes of economic thinking that have produced so much economic hardship and fueled so much tumult.
$1 an hour to fight largest fire in CA history: Are prison firefighting programs...
According to some estimates, California avoids spending about $80-$100 million a year by using prison labor to fight its biggest environmental problem.
The end of asylum?
Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?
The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt
“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”
Civil rights hero John Lewis remembered at funeral as ‘patriot who risked his life’...
“a true American patriot who risked his life and bled for the hope and promise of democracy.”
Maine becomes latest state to ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
There has been a growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day, which has been a federal holiday since 1934.