California just legalized public banks. Will the rest of the nation follow suit?
The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities.
Job growth remains slow in September, but unemployment rate falls to 3.5 percent
Manufacturing employment hit a record low as a share of private sector employment.
US press horrified by Trump’s “shoot migrants in the legs” but ignores what Israeli...
The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media managed to report without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy.
“Revitalizing, revolutionizing and democratizing art education”: The birth of New Masters Academy
‘This is the space where I think my political and artistic lives intersect.”
The new age of protest
Led by young people, climate strikers blocked traffic on two mornings at the end of last month in Washington, DC. On the...
Gun violence research matters. Here’s why
Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance gun violence research.
Right-wing politicians fear “invasion” of Europe & US by migrants and refugees
Governments like the U.S. are not changing harmful foreign policies that are driving conflict and persecution.
Hundreds of cops are in extremist Facebook groups. Why haven’t their departments done anything...
“Leadership always sets the tone for how an agency moves forward.”
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg
Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address the climate crisis.
The end of asylum?
Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?