Monday, July 14, 2025

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

From Massachusetts, some tax-the-rich inspiration

The super rich, worldwide, are regularly cowing their critics. Bay Staters have pounded back.

Trump-GOP budget bill would give top 1% over $1 trillion in tax breaks, analysis...

New ITEP study shows a sweeping Republican measure delivers nearly seventy percent of its benefits to the wealthiest households while gutting Medicaid.

Wall Street bonuses decline but still dwarf worker pay increases since 2008 crash

Since 2008, growth in the average Wall Street bonus has far outstripped wage growth for ordinary U.S. workers.

‘No time for half-measures’: Greenpeace rebukes EU’s partial ban on Russian oil

The new embargo exempts pipeline imports at the behest of Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán.

At March for Our Lives, a call for a nationwide strike of schools

“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job.”

Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?

The top 10 inequality victories of 2022

Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs.

On our climate-challenged planet, only some deaths really matter

Wealthy victims make headlines — while the wealthy still living stall the moves that could protect us all.

A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people

Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.