Cops on Paid Leave After Toddler Dies in Patrol Car
Although the mother of the deceased toddler was involved in a prior incident concerning the Department of Human Services (DHS), neither of the officers face criminal charges.
The real Standing Rock victory is this: “Inevitable” is not what it used to...
The whole pipeline fiasco was a more appropriate story for the 19th century instead of the 21st. Now, the timing is ideal for a new beginning: #HealNorthDakota
The Right Staff
A new movie about the African-American women mathematicians in the NASA space program adds critical depth and detail to the legend of The Right Stuff.
Congressional energy and climate committees are loaded with ex-fossil fuel lobbyists
Ex-lobbyists-turned-congressional-staffers get bonuses from their old employers as a parting gift as they step through the reverse revolving door.
Death. Readiness is all
If it were better understood dying would no longer be dreaded as it so often is.
After Cop’s Shooting of Unarmed Walter Scott Caught on Video, New Calls for Body...
Would requiring officers to wear body cameras be a new way to address civil rights concerns? Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, talks about the newly ignited debate.
CIA Mission: Destroy the Whistleblower and Perfume the Stench of ‘Operation Merlin’
Does more secrecy breed more impunity? The Jeffrey Sterling case brought to the surface more serious questions about Operation Merlin and indicates that the CIA program was more "shoddy and irresponsible" than Risen’s book reported.
“Shut down those tanks”: anger grows in Hawaii after U.S. Navy fuel site contaminates...
“The Navy assured us and promised our state Water Resource Management Commission that this would never happen, and yet here we are.”
Over 100 Notre Dame students walk out of Mike Pence’s commencement speech
President Trump was going to be asked to give the speech, but thousands of students signed a petition demanding the university not invite him.
New campaign: Close all US military bases on foreign soil
U.S. foreign military bases are NOT in defense of U.S. national, or global security.








