Medicaid purge has now impacted at least 2.1 million people—including many children
"States like Florida and Arkansas are weaponizing the bureaucracy against the poor and revoking healthcare for millions, the vast majority for incomplete paperwork."
Actors embrace tentative deal with studios, curtains rise on Hollywood’s longest strike era
This agreement, coupled with a recent deal among writers, has brought a close to the industry's strike actions that had previously brought production to a near standstill.
How Scott Walker made Wisconsin the national poster child for dark money corruption
"Citizens can't exercise their right to self-governance if we don't know who is funding our representatives."
In possible hate crime, 3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont
"The surge in anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian sentiment we are experiencing is unprecedented, and this is another example of that hate turning violent," one advocate said.
SCOTUS: Okay for debt collectors to hound people, even after statute of limitations expires
“The result is that debt buyers have won ‘billions of dollars in default judgments’ simply by filing suit and betting that consumers will lack the resources to respond.”
Former federal correctional officer pleads guilty to bribery and smuggling charges
Nickolas Herrera, a federal correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Sheridan, Oregon, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, providing contraband in prison, and accepting a bribe as a public official.
Brexit, in Context
The Vote is Many Things, Most of All, It’s a Rejection of Neoliberalism
Resistance Spreading Like Water Across The Great Plains
In the coming weeks we have our day in court, and we are optimistic that a federal judge will agree with us that our peaceful exercise of free speech and civil disobedience is legal and cannot be restrained.
Solidarity Strengthens at Standing Rock
Protecting the water and sacred sites brought people here. The experience of being here is changing lives.
Disaster capitalism—or stumbling, bumbling, vengeful Lord of Misrule?
How monumental faults/ Drive appalling somersaults.