Poor People’s Campaign readies ‘massive, nonviolent’ effort to save democracy
"The path to electoral victory in this country goes through the 140 million poor and low-income people."
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
Former Dallas cop charged with murdering unarmed, innocent neighbor
“He felt safe in that apartment, and he was violated.”
Building a new political, economic and social structure
“We’re glad to see Trump go, but we don’t have a lot of hope in Biden. We really need something new, different, and better.”
These are the corporations behind Trump’s Muslim ban
While it is important to hold our public officials accountable for their role in promoting the Muslim ban, we cannot stop there.
Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight
The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
BREAKING: President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s sentence
The commutation was part of Obama’s Tuesday announcement of 209 commutations and 64 pardons.
Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and...
In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.
Videos reveal California cop slamming unarmed woman to the ground
After the officer slapped the cellphone out of the woman’s hand, her mother attempted to record the rest of the incident on her cellphone as another officer detained her.
LA wildfires destroy homes as insurers abandon policyholders in high-risk areas
Insurance companies pull out of fire-prone areas, leaving homeowners scrambling for coverage amid record-breaking climate disasters.