Saturday, November 14, 2026

Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit

"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.

‘Total embarrassment:’ WaPo rebuked for failed fact-check of Sanders on trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout

"The piece portends to be an exercise in empirical rigor and mathematical precision. But he's really just playing games with semantics and definitions. And people who understand the issues he 'fact-checks' can see it."

Watch dying activist Andy Barkan’s “heartfelt” and “moving” conversation with Bernie Sanders on the...

Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential...

Nashville mayor resigns after pleading guilty to theft

On Tuesday, Megan Barry and Robert Forrest pleaded guilty to felony theft and were both sentenced to three years of probation.

Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust of government, now...

The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.

As cost of climate crisis grows, climate movement escalates

The corporate duopoly seeks to avoid a climate crisis too big to ignore.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.

Bernie takes it to the road

It doesn’t matter if he personally wins or not, so long as his platform – and particularly Medicare for All – is victorious.

Defrosting the cold war with China

Biden and Xi urgently need to go to a couples counselor to air their grievances, identify mutual interests, and commit to the process of getting to maybe.