Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Before the NFL took a knee: 4 lesser-known moments of resistance in sports history
This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.
Juneteenth for white folk
Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?
Amazon’s defeat in NYC galvanizes movement to end billion-dollar corporate welfare
The lawmakers who took down Amazon say their victory is just the beginning of a major fight against tax subsidies for huge companies.
Women’s pain is routinely underestimated, and gender stereotypes are to blame—new research
A new study has found gender stereotypes are particularly decisive in the estimation of patients’ pain.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018
Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.
‘What to the slave is the 4th of July?’: James Earl Jones reads Frederick...
On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.”
Horror at TX detention center: ICE guards separate fathers & sons after they had...
Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest.
Our racial and ethnic roots in all their tangled diversity are what’s best about...
Trumpian white supremacy has it all wrong.
The sports industry too often relies on modern slavery and human trafficking: Liverpool Football...
The LFC clearly states that modern slavery and human trafficking are unacceptable.