What Standing Rock tells us about civil disobedience
The militarized response to communities of color signals a possible double standard in law enforcement’s acceptance of civil disobedience.
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate inequality
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
The chicken and the egg
President Donnie Trump has named some doozies to his cabinet and one that stands out as threats to humane and healthy food is Scott Pruitt.
To have a people’s government, we the people must build it
It’s time to get to work.
Elizabeth Warren and colleagues call for investigation into death of army sergeant
“We must do more than grieve the loss of SGT Fernandes—we must seek justice and answers for his family. That starts with a full and complete investigation.”
Why Native American women are going after Europe’s banks to divest from Big Oil
“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”
The New European Fascists
Poland offers a frightening example of the right-wing populism sweeping through many nations. Neoliberalism is wrecking economies, creating rage among the working class, devastating cultural institutions and eroding liberal democracy across Europe and in the United States.
Darkness on the prairie: The death of Colten Boushie
Indigenous youth will account for almost 25% of Saskatchewan’s young people by 2031; attitudes need to change or more lives will be wasted.
EXCLUSIVE: Under the gaze of Lady Liberty – voices proclaim ‘No walls, no Muslim...
“I accept the obligation to love the stranger.” NationofChange joins protesters in Battery Park.
My long-lost conversation with John Lewis on his vision of nonviolence
In this never-before-released interview, the late civil rights leader and congressman talks systemic racism, permanent warfare, extreme poverty and nonviolence as a way of life.