Unsung Resistance, from Brooklyn to Nabi Saleh
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Federal Judge Rules Idaho’s Ag-Gag law ‘unconstitutional infringement of the First Amendment’
"This latest ruling affirms our right to report abuse in order to protect animals and our health.”
What’s killing America’s middle class?
Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.
“Do kids die, Mom?”
Are we facing the future with trepidation in the age of Trump?
How inequality is killing off humanity
In the U.S., where wealth inequality is extreme and getting worse, the richest .01 percent are wealth-obese.
Trump administration to force 200,000 Salvadorans to leave the US
The last time the government renewed the protections, they cited drought, poverty and widespread gang violence—all of which still exist in El Salvador.
160 Americans now control $2 trillion of wealth
These 160 Americans had a combined net worth of $1.7 trillion. In the last year, they have increased their net worth by $312 billion.
Farewell 2017, year of anxiety
There was anxiety in the air throughout much of the world in 2017—here's what you should know going into 2018.
Inequality is feeding America
It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.
The visionless society
Is the Constitution an increasingly dead letter?