How the Build Back Better bill will help millions of Americans with hearing impairments...
“It’s not just about the elderly. Hearing loss doesn’t magically happen in old age. It gradually occurs over years and years. It’s something that could be prevented.”
Before becoming Trump’s top energy aide, Mike Catanzaro peddled climate change denial as a...
“Tapping Mr. Catanzaro as a White House energy advisor fits with President Trump’s agenda of promoting the interests of fossil fuel industry over the environment and public health.”
LAPD Chief Calls For Criminal Charges Against Officer in Fatal Shooting
LAPD police chief Charlie Beck has called for charges Officer Clifford Proctor, who shot 29-year-old Brendon Glenn in the back as he lay on the ground.
On the day of People’s Climate Marches, the Ponca Tribe begins its own 273-mile...
A unique alliance among tribes, ranchers, and other landowners in Nebraska regroups to resist fossil fuel development like the Keystone XL.
Why We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors
The most significant legal trend in the American workforce is “independent contractors,” which lessens companies' costs of having full-time employees. But is the trend contributing directly to low pay, irregular hours and job insecurity?
Expelled Tennessee Democrat says GOP is threatening to cut local funding if he’s reinstated
"This is what folks really have to realize," said former state Rep. Justin Pearson. "The power structure in the state of Tennessee is always wielding against the minority party and people."
Asylum seekers win in court as federal judge rules against indefinite & arbitrary detention
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled asylum seekers who have passed a credible fear interview should be given humanitarian parole, not indefinite detention.
New Yorkers #SwipeItForward to protest policing of fare-beating
This is easy. This is effective. And it’s legal. And this is a way for everyone to be an everyday activist.
It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one
It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.
On our climate-challenged planet, only some deaths really matter
Wealthy victims make headlines — while the wealthy still living stall the moves that could protect us all.