Why it’s essential to scrap the cap
“The very wealthy people are not paying their share. Scrap the cap.”
BNSF Engineer Who Manned Exploding North Dakota ‘Bomb Train’ Sues Former Employer
A former BNSF employee is suing his former employer because he has gone through, and continues to go through, severe and permanent injuries and damages after the company's oil-by-rail train exploded while he was on the job.
As Video Captures Officers’ Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Men, Knowing Your Rights to Film...
As video proves decisive in holding police accountable for police brutality across the country, it's important you know your rights when filming a police officer. Democracy Now answers questions regarding people’s rights with Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst.
Americans are stressed about the future. Here’s why that’s promising
The era of empire, white supremacy, dirty energy, and global capitalism is coming to a close.
Journalist tests ICE recruitment; surprised to find herself hired with no background check
It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don’t know.”
“Movements work”: As activists occupy Seattle’s capitol hill, city bans tear gas, expels police...
Seattle has become the first city in the nation to win a comprehensive ban on the use and purchase of chemical weapons and other barbaric weapons used against protest movements, so tear gas, mace and pepper spray, rubber bullets, flashbang grenades, water cannons, ultrasonic weapons.
Poor People’s Campaign marches on Washington to ‘blunt the political effects of wealth inequality’
West Virginia and Kentucky activists vow to continue pressing Manchin and McConnell on democracy and economic reforms.
New search warrants in Flint water crisis probe raise serious and urgent questions
"The people of Flint deserve answers. Hopefully this investigation will yield them. And there needs to be accountability for those involved in creating this crisis, including former Governor Snyder."
Social Security benefits are not a gift, but a sacred contract with working people
“We put money into it. We deserve it back.”
A global minimum wage would reduce poverty and corporate power
The world’s vast economic inequality “is no accident,” concluded a top Oxfam official.