After Cop’s Shooting of Unarmed Walter Scott Caught on Video, New Calls for Body...
Would requiring officers to wear body cameras be a new way to address civil rights concerns? Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, talks about the newly ignited debate.
A Corporate Apostate
Not only did Mark Bertolini, corporate chief of the health insurance giant Aetna, increase the company's lowest wage to $16 an hour and improve health benefits, he publicly revealed that these increases aren’t as financially painful as other corporate conglomerates claim.
Why Indiana’s “Religious Freedom” Law Is Great News for Student Debtors
If enough student debtors in enough RFRA states joined in a class action lawsuit against the financial institutions and got enough public awareness drawn to their cause, one of two things would happen: either the RFRA laws are upheld and the student loans are forgiven, or the RFRA laws are rendered unconstitutional and student debtors are still bound to their debt agreements.
Video: Naomi Klein Extended Interview on Role of Obama, Trudeau & Austerity at U.N....
Best-selling author Naomi Klein examines how the 2008 economic crisis and bank bailouts continue to shape political momentum to tackle climate change; Obama’s attempt to be a climate leader at the COP 21 meeting in Paris; and the potential for new Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Give me your tired, your poor…
The case for asylum in these less than United States.
How many more times must we say the same thing?
If you’re not actively doing something to prevent the violence from occurring, then you’re part of the problem.
Indicted: Grand Jury Brings Charges Against Baltimore Police Officers Tied to Freddie Gray Death
Charges were brought against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray clearly leading the way to a criminal trial. And the most serious indictments—second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter—remain.
Making the Economy Work for the Many and Not the Few #10: End Mass...
The way our country imprisons a staggering number of our people is wrong. Instead of mass incarceration, we need to stop wasting human talent and start opening doors to opportunity.
VIDEO: 'Everybody Is a Suspect:' European Rights Chief on Edward Snowden's Call for Global...
In a new campaign to establish global privacy standards, Edward Snowden along with others proposed the International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers. Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, discusses the treaty.
10 Deputies Suspended for Excessive Beating Caught on Video
Ten deputies were put on leave in San Bernardino for their involvement in the apparent beating, tasing and arrest of Francis Pusok as he was taken into custody. Their actions were exposed after a news helicopter captured it on video of the police brutality.


