Sunday, May 26, 2024

‘We don’t trust Enbridge’: Indigenous women push Biden to block line 5 expansion

"The construction of this pipeline will bring massive risk and destruction. We do not want to see irreversible damage to our land, water, and wild rice. We do not want our lifeways destroyed."

As months pass in Chicago shelters, immigrant children contemplate escape, even suicide

Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors.
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Profit over safety: Boeing supplier ignored safety warnings before jet door blowout, The Lever...

Warnings went unheeded, and the employees were told to falsify records, according to a new investigation by The Lever on a federal complaint filed by workers at Spirit.
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Tell the FCC not to end net neutrality!

There’s still time. Please help stop this corporate power grab over what we can say and do online.

The Egg Industry, Scrambling

The egg industry has fought the legislative mandates, arguing that banning cages will cost producers and consumers more, without improving animal welfare.

How taxpayer money provides the research for Big Pharma

Public money and public universities boost Big Pharma’s profits, so shouldn’t the public be able to afford the drugs?

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 27, 2018

What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.

Obamacare is actually working

The law has flaws, but more Americans are insured than ever – and insurers are still turning a healthy profit.

Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign

There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.

A telling tale of two press lords

Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.