How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana – where officers jail witnesses to crimes – could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother.
2015 Was the World’s Warmest Year—and 2016 Might Be Even Hotter
Scientists say the record-breaking high temperatures are a clear sign that climate change is accelerating.
Just out of jail, Winona LaDuke decries militarized crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 pipeline...
“It is a civil crisis when a Canadian multinational controls your police force.”
Mahmoud Khalil is free: Follow his journey from ICE jail to Newark Airport to...
Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his family over the weekend after being released on bail by a federal judge Friday, ending his detention in a Louisiana ICE jail after more than 100 days.
NY cop pleads guilty to violating handcuffed man’s civil rights
If the Court accepts the plea agreement, Officer Matthew Felitto will receive a sentence of probation along with a $7,500 fine.
House passes bill to protect same-sex, interracial marriages
The "landmark legislation" will go to President Biden, which he is expected to sign into law.
Ohio communities face ‘voter suppression’ in push to rein in oil and gas development
Waterville shows what could be if these ballot initiatives are allowed a vote: a genuine face-off between the oil and gas industry and local communities.
Building a mass movement to stop mass killing
It’s time to universalize resistance.
Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK
In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.
Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
The civic, patriotic and political language we use to describe ourselves remains unchanged. But the America we celebrate is an illusion.