Top ranking Michigan official ordered to go to trial over Flint water crisis
Nick Lyon will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter after a Legionnaires' disease outbreak reportedly killed 12 and sickened close to 90 people in 2014 and 2015.
Why Activists Fail
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and...
Pickup Truck Hits Native American Protesters in Nevada
A witness described it as a hate crime and said the driver yelled obscenities at a crowd protesting about Columbus Day and the North Dakota oil pipeline.
Trump agrees to pay $25 million in Trump U fraud settlement
The $25 million settlement was reached just days before Trump would have been required to testify in one of the California class-action lawsuits against him.
Trump’s Attorney General pick introduced first bill to exempt fracking from drinking water rules
Nominated for a federal judge position in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, Sessions did not receive approval 30 years ago due to what congressional members deemed his troubling record on civil rights issues.
As the Trump train derails, we must keep up the pressure
We must keep up the pressure with actions in our hometowns that shine a bright light on lawmakers who refuse to resist Trump as he erases every progressive step forward in the last 70 years.
Power to the (working) people: The Great Resignation could change how we relate to...
Only time will tell if working people, both those organized in unions and those who are not, will be able to take advantage of this moment to overthrow the mini dictatorships so many labor under.
The Prison State of America
The "carceral state” we live in will not be reformed through elections, or by appealing to political elites or the courts. We are caught in a prison state and lockdown of American politics.
Why are there so many young people in the white nationalist movement?
Racism and intolerance is being seeded in our youth all over the country.
The 2016 Presidential Elections and the Cost of Democracy
For the moral importance of democracy is not the language of money but the ‘Will of the People.’