Trump slaps 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian goods
The duties will hit Canadian cars, dairy products, alcohol and consumer goods, raising the threat of higher prices and further damage to the United States’ largest trading relationship.
America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges
CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.
Could tolerant and peaceful bonobos be the model for human peacemaking?
“Both chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives and therefore studying their social systems and behavior can allow us to trace the evolutionary trajectories of certain phenomenons.”
Warren urges delay in confirmation vote for CFPB Director until release of Zero-Tolerance documents
“Kathy Kraninger helped implement a policy to punish innocent young children – that is a moral stain that will follow her for the rest of her life."
2021 update: Half of America in or near poverty
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."
Bases, bases, everywhere…
“Undocumented bases are immune to oversight by the public and often even Congress.”
Evidence That Poor People Aren’t Lazy
Many white conservatives may believe that poor people are just taking handouts, but for many privileged Americans, denial is easier than facing the fact that the hardest workers are those who have to fight their way up from the bottom.
World’s democracies threatened by disinformation generated by artificial intelligence
AI is a critical arena in which democracy is being challenged.
Hundreds march to protest Keystone XL on eve of public hearings
Nebraska residents believe that the pipeline threatens water supplies as well as Nebraska farmland.
Former VA police officer indicted after assaulting patient and falsifying report
If convicted, Michael Kaim faces up to 10 years in federal prison on the civil rights charge and up to 20 years on the obstruction of justice charge.