Wednesday, November 4, 2026

How Standing Rock’s divest campaign can stop future pipelines

As banks begin to respond, environmental movements are learning the importance of speaking clearly about the financial risks of fossil fuel investment.

Hundreds march in Akron enraged by police killing of Jayland Walker

"The police can do whatever they want," said one local resident through tears. "They can take our children's lives and think it's okay."

Gassing immigrants in detention with a highly toxic industrial disinfectant

The inhumanity of the overlords administering this toxin to their captive victims is little different from that which was punished, often with death sentences, in the Nuremberg Trials that followed World War II.

Oceans, tuberculosis and killer robots – the UN’s diverse agenda in 2017

The first session of the UN conference to negotiate a legally-binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.

VIDEO: After Marriage Equality and Obamacare, Mixed Results from SCOTUS on Abortion, Pollution, Executions

While the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage and Obamacare were favorable amongst the public, their rulings dealing with abortion access, air pollution, executions and elections were not so desirable.

Long Beach school officer charged with murdering unarmed teen

“I don’t understand how it’s okay for an officer, or a cop or a school safety to shoot while there [were] little kids there as well.”

Did Obama just stop Trump’s Muslim registry?

Had the Obama administration not dismantled the program Trump would have been able to use the framework to screen and track visa-holders easily.
A ballot drop box. Photo: Cliffordsnow / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks Trump administration rule restricting mail ballots

The order covers the November election, months after Trump signed an executive order targeting how ballots move through the mail

Videos of black people’s killings are sacred—so stop sharing them

Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs.

New poll shows the majority of Americans don’t want Roe v. Wade overturned

Americans don't agree with the new abortion bans in Alabama and Georgia.