United States in 2025: Social problems denied via rhetorics of refusal
The gross inequality of wealth and income in the United States and the global exposure of billionaires’ power over government.
Department of Agriculture approves first cultivated meat for sale in US
Cultured meat will Initially be used in two restaurants.
EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy clean school buses
“It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution″
Privatized prison healthcare in the US—profiteering at the expense of inmate health
Profiting from pain—the harsh reality of privatized prison healthcare in America.
Woman receives $3.5M settlement after falling from LAPD cruiser
Officers failed to completely shut one of the rear passenger doors before driving away with a suspect in the backseat.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
The taint on Trump
What has our country become? A country that accepts rapists as their leaders?
Malignant normality silently takes hold in America
The national media should free itself from this president’s constant demand for exposure and attention.
How Trump fueled an affordability crisis
While everyday Americans struggle, Trump prefers to party with the rich.
With renewables so competitive, big plans for oil and gas investments look risky
Plenty of money is still lining up to take on those risks, but the rapidly changing economics of renewables and battery storage mean those investments increasingly run the risk of becoming stranded assets.