Top 6 ways our world changed in 2021
It is time to look back at 2021 and consider the most consequential developments.
Meryl Streep’s must-watch Golden Globes speech: “When the powerful use their position to bully...
“Who are we, and what is Hollywood, anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from a bunch of places."
Spurned reporters should dump Trump briefings and turn to investigative journalism
We need less advertising (or “public relations” in some versions), and a helluva lot more journalism these days.
Here are the major companies cutting ties with the NRA
The NRA has a host of more than twenty national corporations that offer discounts to their members, but that number is shrinking fast.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14
15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.
Border patrol fires tear gas at asylum seekers, hitting women, children, and journalists
U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants at the Mexican border during the first hours of the new year.
How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by one
After years of working as a sheriff’s deputy and a car dealership manager, John Ingrum used his savings to buy a farm...
If current trends hold, women around the world will have to wait 257 more...
"To build fairer and more inclusive economies we must instill gender parity across education, health, politics, and economic participation."
Finland to significantly increase parental leave
“The model guarantees the child a place at the center of family benefits and promotes well-being and gender equality.”
What the expanded child Tax credit means to me
Now families like mine, and every other family with kids, get life-changing help deposited directly into their bank accounts.