Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at immigrant jails
Now Homeland Security’s own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.
Standing Rock’s surprising legacy: A push for public banks
A public bank is an institution owned by a governmental body, funded with taxpayer money, and mandated to serve the public interest.
The power elite has always run Amerika
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite."
The rise of Christian nationalism in America
Or maybe it's how to legislate evil and punish the poor.
Oscar Shoutouts Roundup
Several winners at last night's awards ceremony used their acceptance speeches to speak out on causes meaningful to them.
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid
“My greatest hope is that more and more people will realize that we can achieve Life, Liberty, Equality, Justice, and the Pursuit of Happiness is an actual sense, but only if we devise a truly fair economic system.”
The Values of Failing
“I do think that failure is a valuable part of life. We learn from it, benefit from it, and sometimes, have to reconcile ourselves to it.”
Comic: The upside of crowded living
What I went through to find a place to live in the fifth most expensive city for renting.
We must not dance, Harry Belafonte understood, to a billionaire beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
More than a thousand arrested as Yellow Vests protests over economic frustration rage on...
Some 1,220 people were arrested in France on Saturday as more than a hundred thousand took to the streets – leading to a lockdown...