Saturday, October 31, 2026

Montreal Makes Plans To Ban All Plastic Water Bottles

Montreal announces plan to ban all water bottles, corporations announce plan to fight the ban.

“Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

Children, Toy Guns, and the Real Thing

Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump  

Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?

Sheriffs refuse to send troops to Standing Rock as public outrage and costs mount

North Dakota is stretched thin in its battle to protect the Dakota Access pipeline construction: Costs are nearing $15 million, and police reinforcements are diminishing.

10 most important environmental stories of 2016

No matter how much ink and airtime they earned, all of these stories revealed some larger trend about the state of the environment and environmental advocacy.
Parliament House in Canberra, where the federal Senate inquiry was held. Photo: jjron / GFDL 1.2

Australia’s youth justice crisis needs national leadership. The Senate inquiry is helpful but isn’t...

The federal Senate inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system should have mandated a minimum age of criminal responsibility.

Body cam video shows cop shooting unarmed man

After viewing the police body cam videos on Thursday, Warrick’s family asserted that Bruce Warrick clearly did not pose any threat to himself or the officers.

New report shows persistent racial and ethnic disparities in youth incarcerations

While youth incarceration has dropped by almost half over the last decade, Back and American Indian youth are more likely to be incarcerated than white youth.

Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?

Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

Ivanka—Silence is Betrayal…and Judaism is More than Keeping Kosher

Consider Rabbi Heschel’s humble words on his return from the civil rights march on Selma; “I felt my legs were praying.”