Automatic draft registration undoes a victory decades in the making
Quiet mass resistance led Congress to end compulsory draft registration, but a plan for “automatic” registration threatens that victory.
The Disney-fication of Our National Parks
Congress is letting major corporations buy naming rights in America’s national park system.
Obama Breaks Down In Tears During Speech On Gun Violence
"We maybe can't save everybody, but we can save some."
Inside ALMA Backyard Farms’ mission to reclaim formerly incarcerated lives
Founded in 2013, it focuses on restorative justice, environmental stewardship, and ending food insecurity in underserved communities.
Are TV Networks the Last Bastion of Climate Denial?
"If the TV networks don’t start making these links between climate change and extreme weather events, they will be one of the last bastions of climate denial."
Republicans want to defund our libraries
Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.
In Boston, an approach to housing that avoids eviction
How did the company do it, and can its method be a model for other developers?
MoveOn’s phony new campaign for ‘protecting whistleblowers’
Despite its assertion that “protecting whistleblowers is critical for a healthy democracy,” MoveOn is now splitting donations with an organization that supports the absence of legal protections for many of them.
‘This is unacceptable’: As many as 20 reported dead, dozens wounded in Maine mass...
Between 15 and 22 people were killed and scores wounded Wednesday night in the city of Lewiston, Maine.
World unites against Trump on climate
Donald Trump is learning the hard way that he cannot thwart the entire world on climate change and expect to continue with business as usual.