2021: Half of America facing poverty
For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls on DHS for accurate death count in Puerto Rico
“We are fighting to make sure that help that goes to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands goes to the people, not to Wall Street."
A chill wind: Texas unleashes bounty hunters on women
Texas' latest abortion ban deputizes ordinary citizens to hunt down and sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion after 6 weeks (e.g. clinic staff, taxi drivers, someone who provided money for the procedure).
Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic. Instead, the company...
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.
In the shadow of the classroom: the rising tide of harassment facing Palestinian students...
A harrowing inside look at the escalating tensions within American grade schools, where Palestinian and Muslim students grapple with a distressing wave of harassment, intimidation, and the struggle for identity amidst conflict.
Elizabeth Warren calls for investigation into Trump’s Chief of Staff
Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently called for an investigation into whether Mulvaney violated federal ethics laws governing negotiations over post-government employment.
Should billionaires exist?
If capitalism were working properly, billionaires would have gone the way of the dodo.
From France, an unexpected call for a ceiling on CEO pay
Our modern societies, top French politicos fear, just might ‘explode’ without one.
Germany poised to spend nearly $50 billion on climate protections
The country will spend up to 40 billion euros to cushion the impact of abandoning coal.
Egypt escalates international pressure against Israel by joining genocide case in ICJ
As Gaza faces increasing violence, Egypt supports South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocide, signaling a significant shift in Middle Eastern diplomacy.