There was progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now urgent action is needed.
To create a climate-safe world doesn't simply require impressive targets for the next two decades – it requires urgent action in the next two years.
Four years after Eric Garner’s killing in police chokehold, his family still seeks accountability
Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who applied the fatal chokehold, continues to work for the New York Police Department on paid desk duty and has received multiple raises since Garner’s death.
The hidden crisis: How America fails to protect its children
From child labor to trafficking—and even foster care, sports, and detention—institutions meant to protect children often cause the greatest harm.
An arrogant entrance, a sad exit
With a new Congress and White House committed to wealth’s concentration, we’ll sorely miss the scholar who dedicated his life to documenting wealth’s maldistribution.
Federal Judge Protects Two Transgender Individuals From North Carolina’s HB2
It’s the first sign that the discriminatory law is doomed to fail.
Richest 1% took 38% of new global wealth since 1995. The bottom half got...
"If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice."
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
On Syria And Skittles, Demagogues And The Damned
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Meet George Retes, disabled Army vet to sue Trump admin over unlawful ICE detention
A 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran who is taking on the federal government after he was detained by ICE for three days and three nights without explanation.
Forty plus years later & nothing changes
“It took me 13 years before I ever attempted to get a job with a corporation again.”