How a tribal rights lawyer is winning back the rights of nature
Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.
Inside ICE Air: Flight attendants on deportation planes say disaster is ‘only a matter...
For migrants who have spent months or years trying to reach this country and live here, it is the last act, the final bit of America they may experience.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 13, 2018
Justice Department reopens the Emmett Tiller investigation, Trump's global chaos tour, Ireland passes bill to fully divest from fossil fuel by end of 2018, and more.
Pink Ribbons and Corporate PR Won’t Cure Breast Cancer
These women want solutions for breast cancer, not pinkwashed corporate sales events.
Justice for Kaysera: Native teen’s mysterious death highlights epidemic of murdered indigenous women
The family of Native American teenager Kaysera Stops Pretty Places is demanding justice after she was found dead in Hardin, Montana, in...
Unhappy holidays: Houston police force homeless people to throw away food
On Thursday, the Houston Police Department targeted a group of homeless advocates who were attempting to hand out hot food and gifts to the homeless.
CPAC and the DNC: A party is not a movement
The Democratic Party can’t be saved by one leader. But there’s a chance it can be saved by millions of them.
Leaked Zinke memo urges Trump to shrink national monuments, allow drilling
Zinke also proposed opening these publicly held national monuments up to drilling, logging, commercial fishing and other activities for private profit.
The Trouble in Xinjiang: What Can We Learn from the Chinese “War on Terror”?
It is an oft noted irony of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that, as the world becomes more globalized in the economic sense, the struggles of smaller nationalities for autonomy or outright separation from larger states has become more pronounced.
Why the CIA is So Eager to Demolish Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
The CIA is on a quest to gain more respect. Is the agency seeking a very harsh prison sentence for Jeffrey Sterling to serve as a warning to others?