Pharma lobby furious over wildly popular effort to curb drug prices
"This is the biggest defeat Big Pharma has ever suffered—and it won't be the last. We are going to keep fighting until every single person in America can get the medications they need."
One Southern Leader Bridges Civil Rights’ Past and Black Lives Matter’s Future
Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”
Migrants tricked by DeSantis scheme gain legal ground with U visas
The granting of U visas marks a crucial step in recognizing the migrants as victims of a potential crime, thus allowing them to legally work in the United States and providing temporary protection from deportation.
Chicago cop found guilty of murdering teen on video
Finally, a bit of justice for Laquan McDonald.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 9
Chicagoans fight for police accountability, UN report warns of looming climate catastrophe, and more.
Trump to send federal troops to protests in Chicago & Seattle amid violent crackdown...
“We’re looking at the infringement on our rights that is just escalating.”
2 Cops Charged with Aggravated Assault After Video Reveals Savage Beating
Two police officers in Philadelphia falsely accused and arrested a man with aggravated assault and resisting arrest, but upon viewing recorded footage the suspect has been released. Why all the lies and corruption?
Ignoring warnings of mass job loss, Fed hikes rates to highest level in decades
"The Fed should end its rate hiking campaign for good."
Philadelphia strike ends: Race & inequality at center of municipal workers’ fight for a...
Growing piles of trash on the streets of Philadelphia brought the strike into clear view for city residents.
Trump ICE crackdown has separated an estimated 145,000 US citizen children from detained parents,...
A Brookings Institution study suggests the scale of family separation tied to Trump’s expanded immigration detention campaign is far greater than previously documented, with more than 22,000 American children left without any live-in parent at home.








