Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Means testing is drowning the disabled in a sea of red tape

“Means testing is ruining my life.”

Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine after oval office meltdown, siding with Putin over...

The decision halts over $1 billion in critical weaponry and ammunition, marking a major shift in U.S. foreign policy and raising alarms among lawmakers and foreign policy experts.
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“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.”

Building the world back better?

Instead of consigning China to the doghouse, why not create one big Green reconstruction team?

Senate committee would underfund health, job training, education programs

The Senate Appropriations Committee proposes to cut 2020 funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education by $2.7 billion below the...

The 6 superpowers that faith communities bring to nonviolent struggle

While religion has far too often been a tool of authoritarianism, faith institutions and communities have also been the life force of so many freedom movements.

685,000+ send comments in support of Bears Ears National Monument

“The people have spoken – more than half a million strong – and 99 percent expect these magnificent lands to be held in the public trust for future generations.”

Autocrats, incorporated

Tom Engelhardt gives his thoughts on election day 2018.

Protests continue across Canada in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders fighting fracked gas pipeline

Demonstrations over the past week have halted traffic in downtown Vancouver and shut down railways throughout the country.

An Afro-Indigenous perspective on policing

In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.