Mother awarded $1.1M after deputy shot and stomped her son on video
“No amount of money can compensate for the loss of Connor, but it does show a recognition on the part of the county of its obligation."
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted.
How the Trump administration may be skirting its own ethics rules
The hiring of three former lobbyists to work in the White House raises questions about how the Trump administration is enforcing the president’s executive order on ethics.
Dems blast House GOP for bill adding $114 billion to deficit by enabling tax...
"Once again," said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, Republicans are "putting politics over poor and working people."
The roots of the US-Russia rivalry
Russia-U.S. relations became most visible during their Cold War confrontation and are now dangerously dysfunctional. Long-established suspicion and overlapping interests have shaped periods of cooperation and competition for centuries, a cycle that risks repeating itself indefinitely.
ACLU vows to keep fighting as Supreme Court allows Trump’s mostly Muslim travel ban...
The administration can now fully enforce its new restrictions on travel from eight countries, six of them predominantly Muslim.
We closed JFK8 after a sewage pipe burst, one of many victories for Amazon...
Collective action is needed to improve working conditions at America’s second-largest private employer.
Over 200 allegations of abuse of migrant children; 1 case of Homeland Security disciplining...
A federal judge found the department’s own records disturbing and ordered the names of the accused agents made public. Now, DHS has taken its fight against doing so to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett own more wealth than bottom half of...
IPS's Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie know it is not a “natural phenomenon” how the rich got rich at the expense of the rest of the population.
Jane Fonda leads climate protests at US Capitol for fifth week in a row
“We cannot leave it to young people to fight this fight for their future by themselves.”









