Police Chief defends use of Taser on elderly woman
“You don’t Tase an 87-year-old woman.”
#MeToo campaign for Sudanese teen highlights the need to end Western saviorism
Noura Hussein, who was sentenced to death in Sudan for killing "rapist husband," was recently changed to five years in prison because of “Sudanese activists, themselves raising the profile of this case, is what [got the attention of] international circles."
The Laquan McDonald shooting keeps exposing critical flaws in Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act
After Chicago officials denied records requests from the police shooting, the attorney general’s office did little to push the city to make documents public.
Police shoot 3 children while firing at robbery suspect
According to the mother, two of her children suffered head wounds, while her third child survived gunshot wounds to the face.
20 ways you can help immigrants now
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says...
Pakistan’s billion tree tsunami
How a reforestation campaign is tackling climate change.
Revised Dash Cam Video Shows Arrest of Alleged Suicide Victim
While Sandra Bland’s death had been ruled a suicide from self-inflicted asphyxiation, her family suspects Bland was the victim of foul play. With the release of the unedited version of the dash cam video, could this tell the truth?
Taxpayers charged $7 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels on public lands
"This report makes it clear as day that the Trump agenda is the fossil fuel billionaire agenda."
Tax the rich? We did that once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
Do better than a rip-off health care system
Universal care would unite our society under the essential democratic principle that we Americans really are "all in this together."