School support workers strike closing more than 1,000 LA schools
More than 1,000 schools are closed because of the strike, which impacts 422,000 students.
Florida Inmates start month-long ‘laydown’ to protest ‘modern day slavery’
Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."
20K Bees Chased a Car for 2 Days to Rescue Their Queen Bee
Clearly, devotion knows no limits between a queen bee and her loyal subjects.
Recent Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Ranks Above all Republican Candidates
Bernie Sanders may still be behind Hillary Clinton, but he far outranks even the most popular Republican candidates.
Prison labor in the spotlight as incarcerated California firefighters risk lives for $5-10/day
For more on how California’s incarcerated firefighting program works, we speak to investigative journalist Keri Blakinger, who is herself formerly incarcerated, and who recently had to evacuate her home in Los Angeles.
What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
Ethiopia’s volatile path to democracy
Political parties aligned along ethnic lines intensifies existing divisions; political groups need to evolve that are free from any specific ethnic association.
Police Department Added to Lawsuit After Off-Duty Cop Tazes Girl on Bike
Assaulted and arrested for riding her bicycle through a parking lot, Tillman recently expanded her lawsuit to include the Tacoma Police Department in order to limit the use of reasonable force and to hold officers accountable for using excessive force.
China is showing the world what renewable energy dominance looks like, says new IEA...
Developing countries are now looking to renewables as engines of economic growth.
Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed...
Wastewater injection had been happening in Oklahoma for 80 years, but something was driving the growing number of purges. But what is the cause?









