Helene unleashes a hurricane of anti-semitism
"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer
NYPD officer stripped of gun and badge after driving into Jamaica Bay
According to police sources, the officer was disciplined for associating with a known felon, not for driving the vehicle into the water.
Landlords evicted Maui residents and housed wildfire survivors for more money. FEMA didn’t take...
When the agency inked contracts with private companies to identify homes they could rent for survivors, it didn’t prohibit them from signing up properties that had been occupied by long-term residents.
The American Shooting Gallery, With Americans as the Targets
The greatest blame lies with this government, from the president to the Congress, who should be working non-stop to come up with the solutions necessary to bring this problem under control.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, October 11
Bernie slams Trump’s Op-Ed and calls him a liar, Republican official caught purging tens of thousands of black voters, Monsanto seeks to undo $289M Roundup verdict, and more.
New Jersey police chief charged with drunk driving and fleeing after crash
Bordentown Township Police Chief Brian Pesce has also been placed on restricted duty.
Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK
In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.
How Koch cash is bankrolling the effort to kill Big Tech reform
When the next big disaster unfolds due to deregulation, don’t be fooled.
After the Keystone XL approval, here’s what’s next for the climate movement
The battle is far from over—and has already transformed the way environmental campaigns are waged.
Martin Luther King’s multiple lanes to multiracial democracy
King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.