Thursday, September 24, 2026

Feeling the “pulse of Europe,” tens of thousands are protesting to save the E.U.

Demonstrators say their first taste of activism for the French election has inspired them to carry on.

This South Pacific island is home to 38 million pieces of plastic waste

13,000 new items are washing up on the island daily.

Chelsea Manning has been released from prison

“For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea. I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally be in the outside world.”

Trump is the symptom, not the disease

Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted.

Trying to explain the disdain for poor Americans

The costly and dysfunctional state of health care in the U.S. shows the absurdity of entrusting basic human needs to the narcissistic tendencies of capitalism.

Two scientists resign from EPA to protest recent firings

The scientists insist they will “not be a future prop for bad science.”

The race to stop Tar Sands pipeline financing before loans are even made

Efforts to defund Keystone XL target same banks that supported DAPL. “If you stop the flow of dollars, you stop the flow of oil.”

EPA puts politics over science

This isn’t 1984. You can’t just throw scientific conclusions into the metaphorical memory hole.

An umbrella narrative – and party – for the progressive resistance

Together, the umbrella narrative and party will form a potent political weapon, much like the deadliest poison-tipped or bullet-firing umbrella ever devised for a spy flick.