America’s Lead Poisoning Problem Is Everywhere
Flint, Michigan, may be in the spotlight for the state of emergency due to lead-contaminated water, but they aren't the only city dealing with lead poisoning.
Organizers plan massive Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ protests as Trump escalates attacks on dissent
Organizers say more than 2,110 protests across all 50 states will build on June’s nationwide actions, as Trump expands National Guard deployments, ICE raids, and rhetoric about cities as “training grounds.”
The big union contract fights coming in 2025
The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.
The materialist mind is trying to resolve an existential crisis
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
Meat industry, Tyson foods linked to largest toxic dead zone in US history
“Americans should not have to choose between producing food and having healthy clean water.”
Trump administration halts visas for Gazans as children arrive for medical care
State Department suspends temporary humanitarian visas after right wing backlash, leaving thousands of Palestinian children without access to urgent treatment.
Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
Pittsburgh nurses are fighting for better staffing ratios—and the research backs them up
What are the key concerns in the nursing contract negotiations at Magee?
AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms
Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”
Pentagon press clampdown under Trump sparks first amendment alarm
Journalists and free press advocates warn that new Pentagon restrictions requiring pre-approval of even unclassified information represent a dangerous assault on democratic oversight, despite Trump’s claim that “nothing stops reporters.”