Betsy DeVos won’t protect LGBTQ students
“Today, the Secretary of Education ... refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on the LGBTQ status of students or ban discrimination based on religion.”
CEO assassination suspect claimed insurance industry ‘had it coming’
The shocking case of a corporate CEO’s assassination sheds light on systemic frustration, extremism, and the risks of growing inequality.
Is intellectual property turning into a knowledge monopoly?
Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge.
Life-Saving Allergy Treatment Is Becoming Too Expensive For Families To Afford
Over the past nine years, since Mylan bought the rights to the EpiPen, the price for the easy-to-use injectors has quintupled — increasing about 450 percent, from around $50 for one injector to $600 for a pack of two.
State Cutbacks, Recalcitrance Hinder Clean Air Act Enforcement
Federal law that underpins Obama’s Clean Power Plan is unevenly enforced by states with shrinking staffs, polluter-friendly policies.
Indigenous organization demand action to halt the destruction of the Amazon
Devastating wild fires have destroyed nearly 1 million hectares in Bolivia.
NYPD ‘friendly fire’ killed an officer. Investigators seemed to ignore video of police being...
New records show that investigators allowed police misstatements to stand, despite having body-camera video to disprove them.
5 things you need to know about Trump’s EPA pick Scott Pruitt
Pruitt is a climate science denier.
Three Times When the World Broke Open – and Two When It Might Again
Never before has humanity depended so fully for the survival of us all on a social movement being willing to bet on impracticality.
Four years of Donald Trump could sink the planet
If Trump isn’t going to pare CO2 emissions significantly, then the US alone could cook the planet, even if China and others act more responsibly.