Thursday, July 17, 2025

EPA employees sign ‘Declaration of Dissent’ over Trump administration policies

The employees said the administration’s policies “undermine the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.”

UK’s anti-protest laws: A threat to democracy and a dangerous global precedent, warns human...

How the UK’s anti-protest laws threaten democratic values and global credibility.

Palm oil: the ingredient behind human rights abuses and eco-destruction that’s probably in your...

Palm oil is found in 50 percent of all consumer goods. And it’s killing the environment.

This new tool can help movements chart a path to victory

As those who understand that strategic nonviolence is, both statistically and morally, the most effective means of resistance, we must take responsibility and exercise great care in its implementation.

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.

This American for-profit healthcare system would just as soon kill you as look at...

To this system, it doesn't matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That's why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing without a demand

Despite presidential misconceptions, Frederick Douglass is dead. But he continues to inspire people around the world.

Why faith leaders are standing up to the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby

An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance.

California introduces bill to protect children from ultra-processed food in public schools

Known as Assembly Bill 1264, the bill would create a legal definition of ultra-processed food or UPF in the United States.

What happens when bad guys win—without direct counter-punches except defiance and litigation? 

If we don’t learn from failure, do we then not forfeit the “sapiens” (wisdom, intelligence) that in the end allegedly sets our species apart?