This Is What Happens To Humans When They Are Exposed To Too Much Lead
An apology doesn’t change the health effects that Flint residents are seeing as a result of the elevated levels of lead in their water.
Emails Reveal Martin Shkreli Raised Drug Prices Purely For Profit
"These new documents provide a rare, inside look at the motivations and tactics of drug company executives."
There Oughta Be a Law…
We are living in a country where the solution to just about any social problem is to create a law against it, and then punish those who break it. Should prison really be the American Way?
The American peace movement we need today
We are aware of several promising ways in which peace groups are already grappling with the imperative of renewed activism and are contemplating action in cooperation with others to counter authoritarianism and protect U.S. democracy.
Pro-Palestine activists arrested blocking New Jersey port
The protesters attempted to blockade weapons bound for Israel, part of a growing global movement to undercut the pillars of the Israeli war machine.
From Standing Rock to the world: 10 indigenous struggles – and how you can...
Whom to call, what to donate, and where to show up.
A police car hit a kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD is quashing a...
Civilian investigators found that officers engaged in serious misconduct, including hitting one boy with a car, pointing a gun at another and wrongly arresting three teens. Then the NYPD intervened.
Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?
Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
Investigation: Substandard medical care in ICE detention is killing immigrants, endangering lives
"ICE, the agency that’s detaining now 40,000 people… and wants to expand, cannot provide adequately for the safety of the people that it holds.”
Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump
Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?