Sheriff indicted on 16 charges including theft in office
“Reader just does whatever he wants and no one ever calls him on it... We are scared to death of him... He is unstable and threatens people.”
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Dwindling salmon and treaty rights in the Puget Sound.
Environmental Health News has investigated these Native American efforts to reclaim their culture by, in part, fighting to preserve important cultural touchstones like water and salmon.
The federal program that can protect workers when foreign trade kills their jobs
The importance of the program only continues to grow because of the war in Ukraine, foreign competitors’ efforts to subvert fair trade laws and other factors outside workers’ control.
Who will lead the anti-Trump resistance?
Figures like Sanders, Ellison, and Elizabeth Warren embody both the ideas and the integrity Democrats will need to mobilize their base and win back lost voters.
The Dutch city that offered refugees a permanent home
When 500 refugees arrived in their community, residents of Zaandam were wary. But by the time the newcomers could apply for residency status in Europe, neighbors didn’t want them to leave.
Drones now protecting African elephants thanks to American businessman’s funding prowess
“We are very grateful that many African governments are leading the way by allowing our drones to fly.”
Building a new political, economic and social structure
“We’re glad to see Trump go, but we don’t have a lot of hope in Biden. We really need something new, different, and better.”
Rightwing mythmaking and the January 6th capitol siege
The idea that conservatives and Republicans are being widely and unfairly targeted by federal law enforcement is yet another example of an emerging right wing tactic of projection.
How the left is using tea party tactics to take on both the GOP...
It’s a way to take back state power for progressives, and turn the Democrats into a party capable of beating Trump’s agenda.