Monday, November 9, 2026

Media that benefit from inequality prefer to talk about other things

As economic inequality surges in the US, major media outlets remain fixated on other economic issues, overshadowing a fundamental challenge to American society.

Starving Yemeni children, bloated U.S. weaponsmakers

It’s clear why U.S. weaponsmakers want to keep selling weapons to the Saudi regime. For them, it is all about profits.

Five years after Sandy: The long road home

If Sandy taught us we can rebuild, it also taught us that we must find a better way.

Our ladies of perpetual activism: Nuns for social justice

These sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

Tribal lenders say they can charge over 600% interest. These states stopped them.

Online lenders tied to Native American tribes argue that they aren’t subject to state lending laws.

America needs to confront its culture of guns and fear

raising the next generation of kids with fewer guns on the streets, more restrictive gun laws on the books, and a healthy sense of skepticism about mass media may be the best recipe to fight back against a culture of guns and fear.

Ben Crump: Derek Chauvin’s guilty plea of violating George Floyd’s civil rights sends strong...

“To be held accountable on both levels, on state level and federal level, we believe, sends a very clear message that the deliberate indifference and the denial of constitutional rights of marginalized people of color won’t be tolerated.”

Republican part-time nation: Going involuntary

Providing security to the nation’s workers is obviously not the Trump-Ryan agenda.

How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign

The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.