Wednesday, July 15, 2026

The Many Ways Women Are Beaten Down in America

Despite all the successes of women, such as earning the right to economic equality, the white male establishment has prevailed. Are women still second-rate members of society today?

Movement to defund US police departments is a beautiful and doable idea

Who needs cops for school discipline, domestic disputes, traffic control and serving warrants?

Kansas county’s $3 million settlement over newsroom raids fuels call for accountability and deterrence

A $3 million settlement and formal apology from Marion County follow the 2023 police raids that targeted the Marion County Record and its staff, as the newspaper’s editor says the outcome is meant to deter future assaults on press freedom.

Save the renewable fuel standard

Help us tell the EPA to keep the Renewable Fuel Standard and keep the United States moving away from dependence on foreign oil.

TransCanada Will Sue Over Keystone XL Rejection

Whatever the outcome, the decision on the pipeline will remain the same.

Activists Deliver Plan for Just Transition to EPA Offices Nationwide

Activists issued their own corrective on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan at each of the EPA’s 10 regional offices yesterday.

Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin Camp

“I’m here to make the world a better place. I obviously can’t do it on my own, and when I saw a big group of people do that I took the opportunity to help anyway I can.”

These unsigned comments supporting a gas exports rule are recycled industry copy-pastes

Roughly two dozen of of the 89 comments were directly copy-pasted from either industry itself or else pro-industry materials written by the DOE or Congress.

‘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.”
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South Carolina prisoners were left in cells as Florence descended. Why weren’t they evacuated?

Prisoners were instead put to work behind bars making sandbags to prepare for the storm’s arrival.