Saturday, May 4, 2024

Voting Rights Remain Under Attack 50 Years After the Bloody Sunday March in Selma

This past weekend, thousands of people, including President Obama and more than 100 members of Congress, marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Still, the Voting Rights Act is under peril today.
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“’We’re going to have Indigenous Peoples’ Day, but we’re still going to smash you in northern Minnesota and smash the rest of the country.’”

Big Lies, Little Lies and the Punishment of Brian Williams

Williams is in the public dock for telling a false story about his experiences covering the American invasion of Iraq; the disclosure humiliated him, his colleagues and his network when exposed. Is his punishment excessive, or does it fit the crime?

Yesterday’s People’s Climate March was a huge success

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“The Bility family thanks District Attorney Stollsteimer and his staff of investigators and prosecutors for following the evidence and the law in bringing forth these charges today.”

On the 3rd anniversary of the Christchurch attack, the Ukraine crisis asks the West...

Ultimately, who are Ukraine’s enemies? The Russian state? Or those who sit on the sidelines doing just enough to stay out of the war?

How America can stop violence against health care workers

“The severity seems to keep going up. It doesn’t go down.”

The health care fight is far from over

We’re going to have to keep up a winning pressure until health care is a public good available and affordable for every person in our country.

Trump announces ban on transgender people in military

The move reverses last year’s decision to allow trans people to openly enroll in the U.S. military.

3 New Years Resolutions That Will End the World’s Dependency on Fossil Fuels

Renewable energy and alternative vehicles get cheaper the more of them we make and use. Oil and coal get more expensive the more of them we burn. So we can be confident that clean energy wins the affordability race.