After Black pregnant woman’s false arrest, Markey renews call for federal facial recognition ban
"We need to pass my bill to prohibit the use of biometric technologies by federal entities and law enforcement so that people like Porcha aren't wrongly accused."
Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?
Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
A new Illinois law shifts repatriation and reburial power to tribal nations
For the first time, tribal nations forcibly removed from Illinois will have final say in how and when the remains of their ancestors will be returned to them.
‘Renters are struggling’: economists back tenant-led push for federal rent control
"We have seen corporate landlords—who own a larger share of the rental market than ever before—use inflation as an excuse to hike rents and reap excess profits beyond what should be considered fair and reasonable."
How America can better care for its veterans
Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.
The climate movement has a recruiting and retention problem—here’s how we fix it
So what’s behind this challenge with finding and keeping great people, and what might we do about it
Jury sentences Pittsburgh synagogue gunman to death penalty
Judge Robert Colville will formally rule in court today.
Five critical lessons from UPS’s union workers
The UPS Teamsters’ negotiations with the world’s largest delivery company offer the American labor movement lessons in organizing.
Can the nuclear weapons genie be put back in the bottle?
The vehicle today for eliminating nuclear weapons is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, passed at the United Nations by a vote of 122 nations in 2017 - and it's not supported by the U.S., Russia, or China.
After hottest month on record, oil giant BP reports ‘hideous’ $2.6 billion in profits
"Leaving this industry with the power to profit without consequence is not only morally abhorrent—it's plainly ludicrous in the face of a climate catastrophe that threatens us all," said one campaigner.