Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Privatized prison healthcare in the US—profiteering at the expense of inmate health

Profiting from pain—the harsh reality of privatized prison healthcare in America.

‘What a rigged economy looks like’: Top 10% now own 77% of American wealth

As Trump and the GOP push massive tax cuts for the rich, new data shows that the wealthy are doing better than ever.

North Carolina GOP boasts that its voter suppression efforts are working

Press release celebrates that African-American early voting is down in the state.
The entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where Elvis Brooks was imprisoned for 42 years. Photo: kccornell from Lafayette, LA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.

The shame of injustice

Everything that causes injustice must be uprooted, within the structures under which we live, but also, and perhaps more importantly, within the consciousness of the individual.

The Tarnished Golden Rule

The Trump campaign may be collapsing under the weight of its standard-bearer’s personal history; but an important reason it got this far is that it advanced the lie that American workers would benefit from the construction of a wall.

2016: A year in photos, from climate change devastation to the power of protests

The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.

Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again

Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.” 

Blowback for the twenty-first century

Remembering Chalmers Johnson.
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ACLU vows to keep fighting as Supreme Court allows Trump’s mostly Muslim travel ban...

The administration can now fully enforce its new restrictions on travel from eight countries, six of them predominantly Muslim.