What the Taliban takeover means for women
The Taliban “has not changed,” say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its rule.
Iowa hospital custodian deported to Sierra Leone before judge ruled on stay request, advocates...
Fatou Traore held a 2011 order barring removal to her home country. Co-workers, her congresswoman and three bishops had asked for her release.
New Jersey’s movement against ICE detention is not going away
These actions, organized by a seasoned coalition of pro-immigrant rights groups in the state, have now been going for over a month.
South Carolina’s Black Voters Turned Out Early En Masse
In 2013, the Supreme Court passed several restrictive voting laws discouraging minority voters in states like South Carolina.
Fabrications, fraud and false accounting: how Deloitte helped Abramovich hide $10bn
The Big Four firm spent years fabricating corporate papers that helped the sanctioned oligarch conceal assets and dodge tax
Sen. Feinstein Introducing New Laws to Prohibit CIA Torture
Senator Feinstein sent a letter to President Obama with her recommendations to prevent the CIA from committing acts of torture. But are her good intentions enough prevent the CIA from committing further human rights violations?
Bayer agrees to pay $10 billion to settle RoundUp cancer cases
Bayer will have to pay between "$8.8 billion to $9.6 billion to resolve current Roundup lawsuits."
America wasn’t a ‘gun-loving country’ until a $13.5 billion industry made it so
Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns – and mass shootings.
A Fitbit for Polar Bears Reveals Their Struggle to Survive
Scientists document that climate change is forcing the animals to exert more energy to find food.
The struggle for what’s essential
Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning.