An Afro-Indigenous perspective on policing
In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.
Video: Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about presidential contenders, and whether or not everyone has a basic right to healthcare.
Starbucks faces NLRB action over union-linked store closures
Making workers whole for work missed," NLRB demands Starbucks reopen closed stores.
‘A warrant is not a license to kill’: Rev. William Barber condemns police ‘execution’...
The family says it shows Brown was shot in the back of the head while his hands were on the steering wheel of a car, calling it an “execution.”
The fall and rise of public heroism
Recently I watched The Man Who Was Too Free, a moving documentary about the Russian dissident politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in...
There was progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now urgent action is needed.
To create a climate-safe world doesn't simply require impressive targets for the next two decades – it requires urgent action in the next two years.
No one should have to bargain for health care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones appeal on Sandy Hook defamation judgments
The Court’s decision leaves in place $1.4 billion in damages for the families of Sandy Hook victims as Jones faces bankruptcy, receivership, and the liquidation of Infowars assets.
Martin Luther King’s giant triplets
It remains an open question, however, when their silent acceptance of militarism, materialism, and the abuse of Planet Earth will end.
‘The conversation is the protest’ — how Black Lives Matter forced us to imagine...
Momentum organizer Nicole Carty discusses how the movement built consensus on racial justice and the strategy needed to make the goal of defunding police a reality.