‘It is time for him to go!’ – Michael Avenatti and Alyssa Milano at...
"Wherever you're from, you go home and volunteer in a campaign office... You turn this around for our country, it's up to each one of you – we can do this!"
PBS report from Yemen: As millions face starvation, American-made bombs are killing civilians
We speak with a reporter who smuggled herself into northern Yemen to report on the widespread famine and devastation there.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, July 19, 2018
"It is time for him to go!" - Michael Avenatti and Alyssa Milano at the White House, Former NY Senate Leader and son convicted of corruption charges in retrial and more.
‘Our democracy is under attack:’ Broad Coalition hosts 175+ #ConfrontCorruption vigils nationwide
More than 175 Confront Corruption and Demand Democracy candlelight vigils are scheduled to begin at sundown on Wednesday.
Trump’s policy agenda is an all-out war on kids
What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children – whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs.
Four years after Eric Garner’s killing in police chokehold, his family still seeks accountability
Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who applied the fatal chokehold, continues to work for the New York Police Department on paid desk duty and has received multiple raises since Garner’s death.
A baby was separated from her uncle at the border. Three months later, her...
Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya has spent the three months since Liah was taken into U.S. custody trying to get her daughter released from foster care for unaccompanied immigrant children.
Defense contractor detained migrant kids in vacant Phoenix office building
It is not listed among shelters operating through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on the state child care licensing website.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Americans explode after Trump's summit with Putin, Justice Department arrests Russia national with ties to Trump and the NRA, all the people convicted of treason in the US, and more.
The importance of being uncivil
To manage the conflict between capitalism and democracy, society “needs the cement of morality,” of which the norms of civility are a part.