Farming as resistance
Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.
Investigation: Substandard medical care in ICE detention is killing immigrants, endangering lives
"ICE, the agency that’s detaining now 40,000 people… and wants to expand, cannot provide adequately for the safety of the people that it holds.”
Mercenaries and morons: the failed for-profit Venezuela coup
Whatever one thinks of Venezuela’s government, the country’s long suffering people deserve better than being cast as expendable pawns in a struggle to secure the country’s vast oil and other resources for American and other multi-national corporate interests.
Why Wall Street’s rule-breaking is everyone’s problem
This is not just a U.S. problem. Regulators agree to minimum standards for banking rules at an international level because finance is a global business.
Meet Crystal Mason, the black Texas mother facing 5+ years in prison for voting...
Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election despite having a past felony conviction for tax fraud that prevented her from voting.
Climate emissions from Gulf Coast’s new petrochemical, oil and gas projects same as 29...
And construction appears to be speeding up, with over 40 percent of those projects permitted between 2016 and mid-2018.
How Congress could decide the 2020 election
If the House of Representatives selects the president, each state would get a single vote—not one vote per House member.
From disappointment to hope: The US midterms show Progressives’ growing strength
All in all, the results of these midterms show that progressive ideas are gaining ground with American voters, even in unexpected places.
Syrian roulette
As Trump’s presidency unravels will he grow more desperate?
Secretary of the Interior first: Deb Haaland, member of the Pueblo of Laguna
“I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.”









