Public pension funds have lost billions on their fossil fuel investments: New analysis
“[Fossil fuel] divestments are able to create a win-win situation with higher financial returns and lower carbon footprints.”
‘Failure isn’t an option’: Progressives plan to mobilize if Supreme Court blocks debt relief
"The Higher Education Act should be used immediately and rapidly to deliver on this essential commitment."
The Titan and the Titanic: two tales of capitalist hubris
The doomed OceanGate submersible offers us many of the same lessons that the 1912 Titanic sinking did.
No wonder the MAGA misery cult is aggrieved, willfully out of sync with the...
Whereas the right is fixated about the past, the present and the future – the left knows humanity makes human history and that progress remains a noble humanistic quest.
Why the way we measure poverty matters
A national panel is recommending changes to a key poverty measurement. It might sound technical, but the stakes are high.
Oxfam reveals how rich nations are helping for-profit health industry exploit poor patients
Development finance institutions run by wealthy countries have fueled "a free-for-all of private greed over public good," the humanitarian group shows in a new report.
Medicine residue is everywhere in our rivers and lakes—and fish are behaving strangely
"If people understand that what they’re using and washing down their drains are ending up at their local rivers, streams, lakes, they might think twice. It doesn’t just go away.”
The 2022 giving slump exposes the fragility of top-heavy charity
When ultra-wealthy donors dominate philanthropy, our charities are less resilient.
10 years after Supreme Court gutted voting rights, advocates say Congress must reverse damage
At least 29 of the voter suppression laws passed since the Shelby v. Holder County decision would have been subject to the preclearance provision that the ruling ended.
3M to pay $10.3 billion to settle water pollution suit over PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
“We have reached the largest drinking water settlement in American history, which will be used to help filter PFAS from drinking water that is served to the public.”