The Catonsville nine, 50 years later
"What are your future plans?" "Resistance!"
We just experienced 400 straight months of unusual warmth
"We live in and share a world that is unequivocally, appreciably and consequentially warmer than just a few decades ago, and our world continues to warm."
Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
Senate saves net neutrality, now onto the House
“Today’s vote is a sign that the fight for internet freedom is far from over."
Hypocritical Democratic Senator announces support for Haspel’s nomination
Besides Sen. Mark Warner, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp have announced their support for Haspel’s nomination.
Senate to vote on net neutrality tomorrow, urgency to save the internet today
"TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO SAVE #NetNeutrality!"
West Virginia teachers help vote out longtime foe of state’s unions
The teachers handed Republican state Sen. Robert Karnes his defeat as many participated in the GOP primary.
The kindly 87-year-old man who took all the school kids’ lunch money
There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it.
Costa Rica’s progressive policies aim to make the country carbon-free by 2021
“We have the titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of fossil fuels in our economy to make way for the use of clean and renewable energies."
Baltimore police commissioner faces federal charges
“There is no excuse for my failure to fulfill my obligations as a citizen and public official.”