Over 17,500 Palestinian children killed as Israel systematically uses children as human shields
A year of catastrophic violence against Palestinian children amid systematic killings, starvation, and human shield tactics.
Study: Major media outlets’ Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times...
News outlets are still failing to grapple with a major problem that media critics highlighted during the Trump transition.
The food industry puts profits over public health using big tobacco’s playbook
In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health.
Let House scrutiny re-brand Trump: Worst of the worst of crony capitalism
If Trump is not made stand-in for heartless Robber Barons, progressives will have squandered our greatest opportunity to name this era: Trump’s Age of Corruption.
Dangerous provocations: North Korea’s missiles and the risk of war
The Korean conflict is much more nuanced than the black and white way it’s usually presented.
Celebrities are a shoo-in for Congress, right? Not so fast…
The CIA is big on “lessons learned”. One of the lesson to be learned here is a) that fame is fleeting and b) there’s more to running for office than buying TV ads.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 6, 2018
The NRA faces a financial crisis, all the Trump Tower meeting drama, federal judge issues game-changing decision on dark money, and more.
Memo to the press (or how to cover Trump without Trump covering you)
Stop treating Trump’s tweets as news. They’re not news; they’re his gut feelings at the moment.
How unions pave the way to the American dream
Because unions provide a voice on wages, safety, and other issues, they empower workers at a moment when a depressing sense of helplessness haunts many other Americans.
Department of Interior awards grants to communities through National Park Service’s program
The program provides matching grants, up to 50 percent of the total project costs, to "enable urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors."