The fall and rise of public heroism
Recently I watched The Man Who Was Too Free, a moving documentary about the Russian dissident politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in...
Video: Police officer fatally shoots unarmed teen in back of head
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the boy’s father alleges that Villalvazo used excessive and unlawful deadly force while committing assault and battery with negligence.
No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes
The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.
Bayer agrees to pay $10 billion to settle RoundUp cancer cases
Bayer will have to pay between "$8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve current Roundup lawsuits."
Why women are skipping work and wearing red on Wednesday
U.S. organizers of International Women’s Day urge women to find creative ways to strike on March 8.
When public officials get rented out by corporate power, the people lose
Such deep betrayals of public trust should not be rewarded with plum executive branch jobs.
HSBC Whistleblower Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
HSBC whistleblower Hervé Falciani was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated industrial espionage. Instead of using the data he acquired for financial gain, Falciani ended up assisting multiple governments in exposing wealthy tax dodgers and criminal organizations.
Time to Recover Productivity Gains Our Bosses Have Expropriated for Decades
If we can’t make the bosses pay more to their employees, the least we can do is make the them pay more into those workers’ Social Security fund. How to accomplish that? Just raise just the employer share of the payroll tax.
With Highland Park 4th of July mass shooting, Supreme Court and Congress have blood...
When it comes to gun violence, the United States is less like France, Britain, Italy and Japan, other members of the G7 industrialized democracies, and more like Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia.
LAPD officer posted ‘don’t drink and drive’ video in bar before causing fatal crash
“I cannot tell you how angry and disappointed I am that a Los Angeles Police Officer would disregard the law and cause an accident with such awful, awful consequences.”







