Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of...

As Indigenous peoples the world over continue to defend ancestral lands, Indigenous Peoples Day can have important meaning, more than just the renaming of a national holiday.
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Striking UAW member: We’ll strike “as long as it takes” to demand fair salaries...

Workers are seeking higher pay, protection of their healthcare benefits, greater job security and a commitment from GM to build more cars and parts in the United States.

Citizenship through the eyes of those who have lost the right to vote

At least 6 million U.S. citizens cannot vote in the United States because they have been convicted of a felony.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 27, 2018

28-year-old Democratic Socialist wins the New York primary, the Supreme Court upholds Muslim ban and sides with anti-abortion centers, Occupy ICE protests spread, a federal judge sides with Big Oil, and more.

NO MORE Sympathy for the Devil(s)

“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”

Is Trump giving Amazon the Postal Service?

Trump wanted to use the Postal Service to hit back at Amazon, but he may end up doing the opposite.

For millions of dogs, South Korea is hell on Earth

Summer in South Korea brings the brutal Boknal “dog eating days,” when more than a million dogs are tortured and slaughtered for meat.

A year after the Tree of Life shooting, anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant racism thrive

Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.

In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’

"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."

Amped-up Age of Anxiety weaponized into Age of Nostalgia

Today, alas, confirms the truth of Pete Hamill’s quip, “The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.”