Friday, November 6, 2026

SeaWorld Admits It Infiltrated an Animal Rights Group

The company’s board has ordered employees to stop posing as activists to obtain information on groups like PETA.
A Massachusetts superior courthouse building

What is postpartum psychosis?

Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three young children in 2023, argued before a jury Tuesday that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, they said, had been experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous medical condition that alters […]

A manual for the new era of activist

Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.

How to attempt racial healing—even during a Trump presidency

America’s past truth and reconciliation processes show us what works.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2

Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.

Newly leaked documents reveal insane counterterrorism tactics used against Standing Rock water protectors

Surveillance tactics used by the company include social media information harvesting, aerial surveillance and radio eavesdropping and infiltration of camps and activist circles.

House Passes GMO Label Law, Advocates Urge Obama to Veto the DARK Act

The majority of Americans support labeling for GMOs and will hold their elected officials accountable for stripping away this transparency.

It’s now time for Medicare for all

Democrats are wise to seize the moment. The time has come for Medicare for all.

A just ceasefire or just a ceasefire?

The war in Ukraine must end with a defeat of Putinism.

ICC report accuses CIA of committing war crimes

While investigating allegations of torture and forced rectal feedings committed by CIA officers, the ICC is currently determining whether to prosecute any U.S. citizens responsible for committing war crimes.