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.”
March for Science: NationofChange marches with thousands in Earth Day protests
The momentum to bring back respect for science has started.
The retired General who stopped a Wall Street coup
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.
The dangerous myth of deregulation
Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.
Learning the power of lies
Facts vs. falsehoods in the age of Trump.
Jerry Brown didn’t invite grassroots activists to his Climate Summit – they came anyway
The youth, indigenous, and climate and environmental justice groups gathered that morning were largely excluded from official programming. So, they created their own.
At least 29 dead after shootings in Texas and Ohio, with police probing alleged...
"We live in a country where the mass shooting that took place yesterday in El Paso, Texas is not the top story because there was another mass shooting overnight in Dayton, Ohio."