1 in 3 of world’s poorest countries spend more on debt repayments than education
"Education systems desperately need more and better funding across low- and lower-middle-income countries."
Trump administration moves closer to food stamp changes threatening free meals to over 500,000...
This week, President Donald Trump's proposal of changes to the food stamp program, that could result in over a half-million students losing...
New Year’s Resolutions: Ten Ways to Combat Upward Redistribution of Income
The one percent pretend that their good fortune was the result of the natural workings of the market. Is it possible to change the structure of the market so that money doesn’t continue to flow upward?
Two years after Khashoggi’s murder, why is America still an accomplice to MBS’s crimes?
As U.S. leaders continue to coddle the Saudis, it’s difficult not to ask who is more evil...
The climate crisis could make your grocery bill even higher
“I don’t think farming in California has ever been more complex and more challenging."
Recent EPA-funded research links 30,000 deaths to U.S. air pollution
According to new research released yesterday, funded by the EPA, more than 30,000 deaths have been linked to the unhealthy air quality...
Why So Many Americans Defend the Failed Capitalist Experiment
Members of the sinking middle class in our pathologically unequal society may well find it convenient to blame people in lower economic classes, who are unlikely to fight back. It's a game for the people looking down on a troubled nation.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
‘Shocking’ report reveals thousands of migrant children have been sexually abused while in US...
"This is not normal! Why would any member of Congress or person of conscience support increasing funds and enabling this agency?"
Returning to Reno
In the shadow of Roe's undoing.