China bans single-use plastic straws and shopping bags
China is one of the world's biggest users of single-use plastic and in 2010, produced 60 million tonnes of plastic waste.
“This is voter suppression”: 198,000 Georgia residents were illegally purged from voter rolls
“I think it’s quite interesting and coincidental … that many of them on that list are African American voters.”
‘Victory for Julian”: UK blocks WikiLeaks founder Assange extradition to US on espionage charges
While the decision is a “very significant victory” for Assange, the judge has largely sided with the U.S. prosecution.
These companies took $1.8 billion in federal aid to save jobs. They laid off...
Rosa Rodriguez spent eight years ironing and hanging bathrobes for guests at the Mirage, the Bellagio and other five-star hotels on the...
Hunger in America
COVID-19 and the nightmare of food insecurity.
Rights groups demand Biden reverse Trump immigration changes as COVID surges in ICE jails
This comes as more than half of ICE’s immigration detention centers are currently reporting coronavirus outbreaks.
Supreme Court blocks New York’s restrictions on religion amid COVID-19
The Supreme Court's majority ruled that "even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten."
The other America
The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) U.S.A...
Biden urged to be #climatepresident by taking these 10 ‘game-changing’ steps in first 10...
“Don’t let anyone tell you that Biden’s hands are tied on climate action without the Senate.”
Trump’s most sinister, ultimate scam: warring against causation, the bedrock of reality
Trump corrupts the indispensable bridge between cause and effect, thus banning solutions.