Trump reinstates old abortion restrictions cutting off U.S. funding to international groups that offer...
Organizations receiving funding cannot even counsel pregnant women on the option of abortion, or else they risk losing all U.S. funding.
Greenpeace condemns Japan’s announcement to resume commercial whaling
“Their decision to withdraw is regrettable and Australia urges Japan to return to the Convention and Commission as a matter of priority.”
Prominent economists ask government for substantial improvements to short-time compensation program in next COVID-19...
“Congress has the power to protect ordinary workers during this public health and economic crisis.”
Questioning the corporation
From trading posts to tech empires, corporations continue to grow in strength. Without reform, their power may soon eclipse public control entirely.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 27
DNC strips superdelegates of power, 70% of Americans support Medicare for All, John McCain dies, and more.
Inside the country’s first official safe drug consumption site
An overdose prevention site in New York City continues its research-backed, lifesaving work.
Grading Trump and SOTU
Overall Ranking: America is too divided and too partisan.
How Trump’s war on regulation is trickle-down economics
Trump’s attack on regulation is just another form of trickle-down economics – where the gains go the top, and the risks and losses trickle down.
10 times as much of this toxic pesticide could end up on your tomatoes...
Did the chemical industry helped fashion EPA’s testing strategy?
Senate Democrats face reckoning over GOP spending bill that hands Trump and Musk unchecked...
Progressives warn that the Republican spending bill would give Trump and Musk sweeping control over federal funds, gut social programs, and set a dangerous precedent—while Senate Democrats waver on whether to fight or fold.