Monday, August 18, 2025

What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint, Michigan

Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country's political morals: namely, an insidious right-wing belief that poor people (particularly people of color who are poor) are underserving moochers whose misfortunes can be ignored.

Let’s End Torture in U.S. Prisons

Survivors call solitary confinement “living death.”

The World’s Largest Temperate Rainforest Has Just Been Saved

An agreement preserves British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, home to the rare spirit bear and other wildlife, but allows some logging.

Noise Pollution May Be Harming the World’s Most Endangered Killer Whales

A new study shows that the din from large ships matches the frequencies used by Pacific Northwest orcas to find food and communicate with one another.

Not Science Fiction: Biotech Industry Pushing ‘GM 2.0’ Across Europe

Effort to exempt new techniques from existing regulations is nothing more than an attempt to get genetic modification in 'through the back door'

The Bernie Campaign: The Democratic Party’s Biggest Insurrection in Decades

Genuinely progressive candidates can inspire and galvanize -- and sometimes they can even win. But election campaigns, especially national ones, are almost always boom/bust.

After Bill To Drug Test Welfare Applicants Is Unveiled, Lawmaker Proposes Testing Legislators

“There’s no reason why state legislators should get a pass, simply because we wear suits.”

California Wants to Execute Innocent Man

Kevin Cooper might face execution next week even though he is said to be innocent.

What Iowa Did for Bernie Sanders

The “virtual tie” between Sanders and Clinton was the result of several coin tosses when 6 precincts came to a tie. So what's next for the Sanders campaign?

It Takes a Movement

In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.