Dakota Access owner says pipelines safer than rail yet owns rail hub connected to...
“Both oil-by-rail and pipelines are dangerous. The argument that one is safer than the other is simply a distraction.”
4 ways reparations can address racial inequality in education
Unequal schools are one of many manifestations of systemic racism. Changing the way schools are financed and homeowners are taxed can be a vehicle for reparations.
Alabama cop arrested on drug and domestic violence charges
The drug charge is a felony and the domestic violence charge is a misdemeanor.
More seeds for transformation planted this week
The U.S.’ acts against people and the planet make the era of transformation more likely.
Bundys vs. c: Armed white militia leaders walk free as Native Americans face police...
The tribe says militia members mishandled tribal artifacts and bulldozed sacred sites. Militia leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy still face federal charges related to an armed standoff in Nevada in 2014.
‘A king above the law’: Supreme Court rules presidents have broad immunity from prosecution
The ruling upends more than two centuries of legal precedent, for the first time shielding U.S. presidents from criminal accountability.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 24
Nationwide walkout for sexual assault survivors, Kavanaugh struggles with more questions, undocumented immigrants refuse to testify on domestic abuse, and more.
Racist voter suppression revealed in a small-town voter fraud trial
As the nation faces demographic shifts, the push to suppress voting intensifies.
Former cop charged with assaulting unarmed jaywalker on video
Hickman was charged with assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury, and communicating threats.
‘Kidnapped’: 1,000+ protest after masked ICE agents abduct Tufts Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk
Surveillance video shows agents approaching her on the streets near her home Tuesday evening and handcuffing her while she screamed for help.