Making Monsters: How media encourage hatred of immigrants
Is it virtually impossible for Americans to accept migrants as human when the news persistently degrades, brutalizes and distorts their image?
Compassion on trial: Ohio pastor faces charges for sheltering the homeless
"In times of crisis, it's not just about the letter of the law but the spirit of humanity."
Black Friday Amerika: ‘Shop till we all drop’!!
Old Ben Franklin said it best: “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Hear that all you Wal-Mart shoppers?
New Zealand Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion care
“From now abortions will be rightly treated as a health issue. The previous law required a woman seeking an abortion to go through many hoops.”
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12
Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.
2019 marked a massive uptick in environmental activism as it did environmental activists’ deaths
"Land and environmental defenders play a vital role in protecting these climate-critical forests and ecosystems."
‘A human tragedy’: Wildfires reveal California’s reliance on incarcerated firefighters
Lay bare the state’s reliance on prison labor to control its ever-growing wildfire season with an exploitative system many have called slave labor.
Judge says California’s Prop 22 unconstitutional in ‘major’ win for gig workers
A measure that let so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft limit worker protections—is unconstitutional.
Don’t let youth climate activists like me burn out
To all the COP26 delegates and others with power over what happens at this conference: Please show us that you’ve heard us.
In attempt to “intimidate protesters,” 87 face felony charges for Kentucky sit-in for Breonna...
“What they’re attempting to do is intimidate protesters. They’re attempting to send a message that nobody should be out here investigating something that clearly needs investigation.”