Sunday, August 3, 2025

The other America

The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) U.S.A...

Few cops we found using force on George Floyd protesters are known to have...

ProPublica compiled 68 videos that seemed to show officers using disproportionate force on protesters. A year later, police have disclosed discipline for a total of 10 officers.

Sanders, Jayapal plan would tax Wall Street speculation to fund tuition-free college

"The time is long overdue to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for working families."

Trump administration buys up nearly all the world’s supply of coronavirus drug remdesivir

Remdesivir was the first drug to be approved by U.S. licensing authorities to treat the new coronavirus.

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...

Sanders goes to the people for climate solutions as corporate media ignores the climate...

"If we do not get our act together, I worry about the planet that we will be leaving... The grassroots of this country has got to stand up."

‘We need a people’s vaccine, not a profit vaccine’: Sanders urges Biden to support...

“Ending this pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a very different mindset—a mindset that puts people over profits at every turn.”

Retail industry claims to embrace criminal justice reform all while trying to derail it,...

Best Buy, Home Depot, Target, CVS and Walmart are among the retailers that have tried to derail state-level criminal justice reforms.

It’s looking like another failed coup attempt by the US and its puppet Guaidó...

Kudos to the people of Venezuela for standing up for their sovereignty.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018

Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.