Exploring the high rates of social violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Many factors contribute to this, but long-term solutions remain difficult to achieve.
On ‘front lines of climate change,’ Baltimore lawsuit aims to hold 26 fossil fuel...
"These oil and gas companies knew for decades that their products would harm communities like ours."
In ‘stunning indictment’, ICE officers call for own agency to be dissolved amid growing...
"It was never about crime. Never about MS-13. Always just about hurting less privileged people of color. All at the expense of actually protecting America."
From excess to simplicity of living and social justice
As the global crises grow and deepen, there are signs, tentative but strong, that such a collective shift is underway; a growing awareness that something fundamental needs to change
This small town refused to settle for Wal-Mart when its last local grocery store...
After four years without an independent grocery store, the residents of Iola, Kansas, found a way to bring one back.
Flotilla to the Pentagon: An update on the anti-war movement
With everything going on it's easy to forget the anti-war movement. Rest assured, they are still fighting the war machine.
‘Great Elephant Census’ Shows Catastrophic Decline in Africa
"Forest elephant populations are already known to be decreasing at alarming rates and now the Great Elephant Census has revealed that savannah elephants are in the same boat."
The Second Amendment was created to put down slave revolts
The founders’ true intent behind the right to bear arms wasn’t liberty—it was control, oppression, and the preservation of slavery.
Puerto Rican mayor and other officials arrested on corruption charges
“The public must be able to trust the officials who are put in charge of government funds. Anyone who violates that trust will be brought to justice."
American psychosis
We are entering a period of national psychological trauma.