Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
The national prison strike is over. Now is the time prisoners are most in...
The fact is that men and women behind bars are in most in danger in the days, weeks and months after they have dared to protest.
Nearly 15,000 counter Trump event with El Paso rally to reject ‘hatred and bigotry’
"The only threat to our border community is Donald Trump's lies. A border wall is a threat to our environment, our economy and everyday lives as fronterizos."
Are federal guidelines for prescribing opioids hurting patients with chronic pain?
This month, more than 300 doctors and medical researchers sent an open letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning patients have been harmed by a lack of clarity in guidelines for prescribing opioids.
CEOs got an $800k raise last year. Did you?
Ordinary workers now have to work centuries — or even millennia — to make what their CEOs make in a year.
As U.S. children head back to school, sales of bulletproof backpacks skyrocket
Sales of bulletproof backpacks have gone up 300% recently as parents prepare their kids to go back to school. With the latest...
Bill, Melinda, and the burden of grand fortune
All relationships, not just romantic couplings, tend to be twisted by wealth.
With God on our side?
“It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.”
Growing my way out of dystopia
Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?
FCC refuses to investigate net neutrality comment fraud
The FCC continues to take no action to remove the fraudulent comments or to prevent them from being filed.