Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has withdrawn as a cooperating agency from the U.S Federal government’s ongoing environmental assessment of the Dakota...
Tax-dodging billionaire dynasties could cost US $8.4 trillion
Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times...
Off-duty NYPD cop charged with assault as a hate crime
NYPD Officer Riggs Kwong is accused of using anti-Muslim slurs on video before beating a motorist until he lost consciousness.
Surviving today’s toxic brew of doomsday moralism, criminality and derangement
You don’t have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and...
40 House Democrats demand Congress ‘swiftly’ cut drug prices
With the Build Back Better Act stalled in the Senate thanks to the GOP and a couple of right-wing Democrats, 40 party...
To protect women’s health, pass the equal rights amendment
Late January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well...
Why are we torching our best tool to end child poverty?
Ada Mae’s beautiful blonde curls are wild on this sunny, mild winter afternoon.
I’ve just picked her up from...
9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against telecom industry in California net neutrality...
The court ruled against the telecom industry and California's net neutrality law is now enforceable.
Police sergeant arrested for DUI after crashing car
Dunwoody Police Sergeant Robert Parsons had been suspended from the department for five days, placed on probation for two years and required an alcohol assessment.
How an undercover cop set back a climate movement
There had to have been some who were suspicious of Mark ‘Flash’ Stone when he first joined UK activists fighting climate change...