2017: The Year that brought on the Resistance
2017 was certainly not the year that I thought it was going to be.
Rivers are key to restoring the world’s biodiversity
Biodiversity is plummeting, but restoring rivers could quickly reverse this disastrous trend.
Global climate strike: Kids are demanding action, but will adults act?
The Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, is expected to draw millions of people across 150 countries in what is poised...
Trump admin. wants to make it easier to frack and mine in national forests
"Instead of weakening protections, Trump should clean up the mess the mining industry has already left behind in our forests."
Empowering the people: More, not less democracy is the answer
We should always worry when elites begin to tell us that there’s too much democracy.
$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
A northern pink tide? Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders test the prospects of internationalist...
Along with attracting younger voters, both Corbyn and Bernie Sanders have used movement-building to different degrees to create campaigns that are very different both from those opposing them now but also from any that came before.
Greece mandates six-day working week amid controversy and protests
As Greece mandates a six-day working week to boost productivity, workers and unions decry the policy as a rollback of long-standing labor rights, sparking nationwide protests.
Environmental Working Group detects lower levels of glyphosate in oats
EWG tested 24 samples of 14 non-organic oat-based products from popular brands and glyphosate was detected on all non-organic, or conventional, samples, but the average amounts were much lower than the tests conducted in 2018 and 2019.
Sanders and colleagues introduce Medicare for All Act of 2022 in the Senate
The Medicare for All Act of 2022 would be implemented over a four-year period and would include dental care, vision coverage, and hearing aids with no out-of-pocket expenses, insurance premiums, deductibles, or co-payments,