The Trump administration leaned on African countries. The goal: Get business for Elon Musk.
Senior State Department officials in both Washington and Gambia have coordinated with Starlink executives to coax, lobby and browbeat at least seven Gambian government ministers to help Musk, records and interviews show.
The right-wing attack on Medicare for All
The campaign of lies continues.
After a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, the government response stalls
The Biden administration has not delivered on one of the main mandates of the COVD-19 Hate Crimes Act.
‘Educational arson’: Trump moves to abolish Dept. of Education amid broader attack on public...
We speak to longtime educator Jesse Hagopian about what he calls an “extremist, authoritarian power grab to dismantle public education and enforce ideological conformity.”
The USA’s systemic racism includes its wars
Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people killed by U.S. firepower in the “war on terror” for more than two decades have been people of color.
France’s 9-11 Moment and a World in Peril
The attack on Charlie Hebdo and France's new-found resolve to wage war on radical Islam puts Europe front and center in the war on terror. Potentially, is this Europe's 9-11?
“It wasn’t just big oil that knew about climate change decades ago”: New report...
The coal industry knew about the danger of rising greenhouse gas emissions as early as 1966.
Sanders unveils report debunking Starbucks’ claim to be a ‘progressive’ company
"Starbucks has engaged in the most significant union-busting campaign in modern history."
Was Goldman’s CEO ‘inspiring’ or good for the Economy? Nope, and nope
Lloyd Blankfein and his peers are strangling genuine growth, turning a productive economy into a financialized one, and driving up already-unsustainable levels of inequality.
Prospects for a republic beset with disunity 
A republic needs endless work/ Or insurgent forces go berserk.