Mexico City enacts ban on single-use plastics and straws
“To be effective, the measure requires the support of citizens … to transform our consumption habits and strive towards more sustainable lifestyles.”
How Bernie Sanders’ fight against Big Pharma dropped inhaler prices from $300 to $20
A Maine woman’s story highlights the impact of progressive action on drug prices.
‘We’re staying’: Line 3 opponents camp at Minnesota Capitol to protest oil pipeline
"We're here in ceremony. We’re here to assert our treaty rights and our right to exist and our right to clean water."
How to Become Terror-Torn Europe – and How Not To
If Trump or Cruz ever enacts the kind of repressive policy they now advocate, then eventually we will become much more like Europe in its ethnic and religious polarization.
IHCHR: 11,800 civilians killed in US-led air strikes in Syria, Iraq
“We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation, leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary.”
Nader urges judge to imprison Trump, citing grave threat to democracy
Ralph Nader calls for a prison sentence for Donald Trump, arguing his actions endanger the peaceful transfer of power.
Mr. President, defiant denialism violates the ultimate political commandment: Win with your best shot
How much insight is needed to project the frailty of the last many months into an electoral NO on any four year bet?
Two major Pacific Northwest fossil fuel projects dealt massive setbacks in one day
Could this severely dim their prospects of ever moving forward?
Scoring Trump’s tax cuts so far: $280k for rich lawmakers, pennies for working people
Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts.
Voices From the Front Lines of the Flint Water Crisis
Two parallel investigations, state and federal, are underway in an attempt to determine if any crimes have been committed.