Plants face tough climate challenges as seed-dispersing animals decline
Animals that eat fruit and spread the seeds in their droppings offer an all-inclusive transportation service for half the world’s flora. But as...
Just 6% of US House seats expected to be competitive thanks to rigged maps
The vast majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are becoming non-competitive.
May the best presidential performer win!
No one else across the debates delivered Kamala Harris' smarts, tactical finesse or dramatic impact — an up-spirited, engaging candidate to match the petty, endless, tiresome perfidy of Trump.
MIT professor placed on leave for secretly accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein
“The actions of a senior faculty member have raised new concerns. In keeping with MIT practice on faculty discipline, I have asked his department head to consider any appropriate action."
Israeli attacks intensify in Gaza as body bags run out and journalists are killed
Palestinian families and first responders face impossible conditions amid escalating strikes while evidence of alleged genocide emerges and Ireland confronts diplomatic fallout.
Senate saves net neutrality, now onto the House
“Today’s vote is a sign that the fight for internet freedom is far from over."
Watching American lemmings as they prepare to follow Trump over the cliff
These lemmings see him ignoring the Rule of Law, dismissing the Constitution as being irrelevant.
Must larceny always overpower honesty?
In deeply unequal societies, the thieving always thrive.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 14, 2018
DNC will take fossil fuel money after all, Income inequality in America vs. Europe, and more.
Nationwide prison strike in its fourth day, reports of action coming out of prisons
"This is a human rights campaign and each of these demands should be understood through a human rights lens."