New York City files suit to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for climate change...
The announcement marks "a watershed in corporate accountability for climate change" taking the necessary steps to purge funds from the fossil fuel industry.
Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
Trump’s big loss
Settling our differences through ballots and agreed-upon processes rather than through force is what separates democracy from authoritarianism. Trump wants the latter.
Keystone pipeline spills again, leaking nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil in North Dakota
"It happens over and over and over and over and over."
A record-breaking number of females running for House in 2018 midterm elections
With a total of 309 females who have filed candidacy papers to run for the House, it surpasses the record of 298 set in 2012.
For starving Afghans, no carrots, many (economic) sticks
Continuing the war through economic means should be called what it is: a crime against humanity.
Trump’s cruel and deviant budget
Trump’s budget celebrates a cruel and virulent form of individualism – much like Trump himself.
How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks, jack interest rates,...
In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.
North Dakota’s public bank was built for the people – now it’s financing police...
The nation’s only state bank was created to empower small farmers and local economies, but now it’s being used to silence indigenous people with militarized force. How did this happen?
Getting mad and getting even
California's climate lawsuit—the result of a deliberate cover-up.