If current trends hold, women around the world will have to wait 257 more...
"To build fairer and more inclusive economies we must instill gender parity across education, health, politics, and economic participation."
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.
Rebuking fiscal hypocrisy: how tax cuts for the wealthy have skyrocketed U.S. debt
Exploring the roots of the U.S. debt crisis: unpacking how tax cuts for the rich have fueled fiscal challenges.
Student demands for divestment are not new
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on that movement.
Appeals Court Upholds Abusive Sheriff’s Conviction
Instead of identifying himself as a law enforcement officer, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Thomas Rodella assaulted an unarmed victim during a road rage incident. Another example of a county sheriff committing deprivation of civil rights.
Koch brothers pledge to spend $400 million on midterm elections
The annual winter donor conference the Koch brothers recently held was the biggest they have ever had with 550 attendees.
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
It's time we continue the rumblings of rebellion that already frighten the corporate state because dismantling corporate power in community after community is perhaps our only chance of survival.
‘These are the bad times’: Trump to deploy heavily armed border patrol tactical units...
"Trump is using military-style tactics because he has a political beef with cities whose policies he doesn't like."
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.
Justice Department wants Supreme Court to put a halt to youth climate lawsuit
About a week before the groundbreaking constitutional youth climate lawsuit heads to trial, the Department of Justice is trying to have the Supreme Court...