NYC students strike to demand racial equity in nation’s largest—and most segregated—school district
“We, the students, have had enough. It is past time to integrate our school system, and we will not relent until the adults stop acting like children.”
Animal cruelty becomes federal crime
“We cannot change the horrors of what animals have endured in the past, but we can crack down on these crimes moving forward. This is a day to celebrate.”
As air pollution reaches epidemic proportions, EPA rollbacks cause 200,000 deaths per year
"When a study shows 99% of death occurring at exposure levels below that threshold, that should make us look much harder at whether the threshold protects people effectively enough.”
Ex-CIA officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiracy to commit espionage
“Lee betrayed his own country for greed and put his former colleagues at risk.”
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’
What explains corporate media’s credulous reliance on uninformative economic measures, and contradictory references to a “strong economy,” alongside reports on a struggling working class?
Senate VAWA bill ‘undercuts tribal sovereignty’
“Placing paternalistic restrictions on tribal courts in the name of 'due process' is nothing more than a disguise for prejudice."
Should there be a maximum income?
What, after all, is the guiding light of society?
“It wasn’t just big oil that knew about climate change decades ago”: New report...
The coal industry knew about the danger of rising greenhouse gas emissions as early as 1966.
The Trump administration’s latest attempt to undermine science – and how to stop it
A bill that is gaining bipartisan momentum in the House would protect the science that protects the public.
Stanford study says renewable power eliminates argument for using carbon capture with fossil fuels
“I call these solutions 'magic' because they are unlikely to accomplish much in the real world except to distract our attention from the necessary work of cutting emissions.”