How a judge scrapped Pennsylvania families’ $4.24M water pollution verdict in gas drilling lawsuit
For many living along Carter Road, this coming summer will mark their ninth year living without access to a regular supply of clean drinking water – and still the legal battle stretches on.
Chicago Police Officer Plans To Sue Teenager He Shot And Killed
The cop is suing for "emotional distress." We are sure the 19-year-old that he killed would choose emotional distress over death any day.
How internet co-ops can protect us from net neutrality rollbacks
Smaller internet service providers offer alternatives and could disrupt the monopolies.
‘Stop profiting off genocide’: 200 arrested at Jewish Voice for peace protest at NY...
We discuss the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
The Violence Against Women Act is unlikely to reduce intimate partner violence – here’s...
But the fact is that the criminal system supported by the act isn’t stopping intimate partner violence.
Monsanto and the Poisonous Cartel of GMOs in India
For more than a decade and a half, Monsanto has extracted illegal royalties from Indian farmers, trapping them in debt and triggering an epidemic of farmers' suicides.
The Laquan McDonald shooting keeps exposing critical flaws in Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act
After Chicago officials denied records requests from the police shooting, the attorney general’s office did little to push the city to make documents public.
Toxic air – the ‘invisible killer’ that stifles 300 million children
For WHO and its partners, this series of measures to achieve a reduction of pollutants could significantly reduce the number of annual deaths from air pollution.
Modest wins for minimum wage, huge gains for marijuana legalization amid shock G.O.P. wave
It was an otherwise bright spot for left-leaning voters, on a night punctuated by shocking Republican gains.
While Supreme Court waffles, cities stand up for LGBT workers’ rights
On Tuesday, October 8, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what has been dubbed “the LGBT employment cases,” where two gay...