VIDEO: Report from Standing Rock
100+ Militarized Police Deployed Against Native American Water Protectors.
Former councilman arrested after driving through Pride Parade
“This was probably more a case of road rage than anything."
I spent 16 months in solitary confinement and now I’m fighting to end it
"The need for reform is urgent. Because putting people in dehumanizing situations pushes them to do dehumanizing things."
Rethinking energy and justice in the Trump era
Local, community-based leadership is needed now more than ever to build the next economy—one that doesn’t pollute poor people, and send the money to rich people elsewhere.
Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence
Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.
Let’s EVOLVE from the duopoly’s neoliberal swamp
Drumroll, please: Announcing progressive or bust
The bloodstained rise of global populism
A political movement’s violent pursuit of “enemies.”
Why Build a National Monument to a Union-Busting Robber Baron?
Now 120 years later, a national tribute to a narcissistic, paternalistic, brutalistic 19th-century robber baron—George Pullman—will soon be built in Chicago. And we, the taxpayers, are footing the bill for his greed.
Your personal consumption choices can’t save the planet: We have to confront capitalism
To stave off disaster, we must transform the economic system driving climate change.
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?