Humanitarian Needs Grow as Nepal Recovers from Catastrophic Floods
1,367 people are confirmed dead and 5,132 remain missing, including 587 foreign nationals, two weeks after a glacial collapse triggered Nepal's floods.
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not...
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says
Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.
American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast
Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
Real History: After 9/11, the “War on Terror” Was a War of Terror
Norman Solomon traces a war on terror that has killed far more bystanders than intended targets, from Predator strikes in Pakistan to 2,000 pound bombs in Gaza.
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger
Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Trump administration proposes excluding noncitizens from 2030 census count
The plan would also strip race, ethnicity and sexual orientation questions from the count that decides how many House seats each state gets.
AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions in wages
Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.