Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine visit revealed the plain, brutal truth of apartheid
His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States.
5 things to know before next week’s critical UN climate talks
You can participate, too. Climate change is not some far-away phenomenon, it is here now and impacts people around the globe everyday.
March demands justice for teen who accuses NYPD officers of rape
“When you’re under arrest and you’re handcuffed, you’re put into a police minivan and you’re with two officers over 6-feet tall and over 200 pounds, there can’t be consent.”
Trump spokeswoman says Americans should ignore conflicts-of-interest, focus on Trump’s ‘sacrifice’
In his first week as president-elect, Trump used his new position to bolster his business interests.
How can progressives get through the next four years? Organize!
Only sustained activism and organizing and effective steps to change the balance of power in Washington and in the statehouses can actually challenge Trumpism.
Unfair food pricing is killing family farms and regenerative farming
In February, a dairy farmer friend sent me a note confiding that a few farmers she knows are living on cereal until...
Biden reviews Guantanamo prison; aims to close it before end of presidency
A revival of an Obama-era goal, President Joe Biden announced the launch of a formal review of the U.S. military prison at...
Border Patrol SUV hits Native American man on video
“We do not tolerate misconduct on or off duty and will fully cooperate with all investigations of alleged unlawful conduct by our personnel.”
Legalizing divorce: A battle between church and state in the Philippines
The Instituting Absolute Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage in the Philippines Act is being condemned by the Catholic Church citing "social costs" as a result of the bill.
COVID-19 crisis highlights big meat companies’ lack of openness
Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S.