Sanders vows ‘strong solidarity’ for multi-state Amazon worker walkout
"If Jeff Bezos can afford a $500 million yacht, a $23 million mansion with 25 bathrooms, and a rocket ship to blast a comedian to outer space, you know what?" said the U.S. senator. "Amazon can afford to give its employees a $3 raise."
Police violence reached an all-time high last year—are we ready to shrink police budgets?
If we want to see a significant reversal to the ruthless march of police savagery, we’re going to need to put our money where our mouths are.
Judges block Trump administration from rescinding Obama-era environmental regulations
“No man, no woman is above the law. You have to follow the rule of law. It makes no difference if you are in the White House or not.”
Republicans want to defund our libraries
Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.
The Titan and the Titanic: two tales of capitalist hubris
The doomed OceanGate submersible offers us many of the same lessons that the 1912 Titanic sinking did.
‘The Walking Dead’ Will Walk Out Of Georgia If Anti-LGBT Law Passes
If Georgia passes an anti-gay "religious liberty" bill on May 3, the state stands to lose billions of dollars in revenue.
How modern tech is helping the fight against conflict diamonds
With many of these technologies becoming common within the industry, we might soon live in a world without conflict diamonds, which should contribute to peace and stability in war-torn areas of the world – at least in the long run.
Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children
Part of the daily reality of poverty in America, evictions—along with mass incarceration—are the mechanisms used to destroy communities and profit from the misery of the poor.
How to hold corporations accountable
It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.
AT&T, Time Warner and the Death of Privacy
All your internet searches and preferences, all gathered and “vertically integrated,” sold to police and perhaps, in the future, to any number of AT&T’s corporate customers.