“My whole heart is with you tonight”: A letter to the Dakota Access front...
We have survived this nation-state’s will for us because we are a fire that their water cannons cannot extinguish.
Bayou Bridge pipeline opponents file to intervene in hearing for private security firm in...
“TigerSwan doesn’t get to deny us our humanity in our state.”
Ten ways billionaires avoid taxes on an epic scale
After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.
“CoreCivic”: new name, same for-profit prison greed
We must put an end to this shameful vestige of our country’s worst deeds.
Trump’s domestic gag rule forces planned parenthood to withdraw from Title X funding, threatening...
"This is about control. Period. We will resist."
When ICE hit Mississippi, its citizens showed up for immigrant families
The Mississippi immigration raid detained hundreds and left children stranded on the first day of school. It also evoked a massive humanitarian response in a state not traditionally friendly to immigrants.
Police kill innocent man while serving warrant at wrong address
Lopez had no criminal record and the officer's account of events doesn't fit with eyewitness accounts.
Fight For $15 Update: When Truman Doubled Minimum Wage
Economists and analysts tell Bloomberg News that wage increases in service and retail sectors are helping retailers by putting “more money in the pockets of some of their biggest customers: their own employees.”
With voting rights protections gutted, polling places have been shuttered on a ‘massive scale’
Decisions to shutter or reduce voting locations are often made quietly and at the last minute, making pre-election intervention or litigation virtually impossible.
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.