Friday, December 26, 2025

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14

15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 12

Law students launch nationwide strike against illegitimate justice, Chinese intel officer arrested and charged with economic espionage, Enbridge Pipeline explosion forces First Nations community to flee, and more.

The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts

This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.

Media can’t quit ‘Trump supporters support Trump’ stories

As we hurtle into coverage of a presidential election that is still over a year away, media have returned to their timeworn...

You don’t need a weatherman…

Taken from one of Bob Dylan's songs, Subterranean Homesick Blues, this lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"...

Preparing native youth to Steward Ancestral Lands

The Tribal Steward Program introduces young people to land conservation and restoration in Northwest tribal communities.

Prospects for a republic beset with disunity 

A republic needs endless work/ Or insurgent forces go berserk.

New campaign: Classrooms Not Computers, stop education profiteering

The devil is in the details. The devil is in the data.
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Special report: In the streets with the New Poor People’s Campaign against racism and...

Demonstrators descended on Washington Monday in the latest protest staged by the new Poor People’s Campaign, which organizers say is the most expansive wave...

The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt

“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”