Ranchers fight Keystone XL pipeline by building solar panels in its path
It's one of several creative protests against pipeline companies trying to use eminent domain to take private land. A Nebraska hearing is planned for August.
Study finds 5,000 people may have died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Cable...
Cable news covered Roseanne for over 10 hours. They covered Hurricane Maria's death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes.
What activists who fought the AIDS crisis can teach us about organizing during a...
“The biggest lesson that I learned from ACT UP is that a small group of people — extremely focused on analysis and practical solutions to the problem — can change the world”
‘Our movement didn’t just win. We earned mandate for change,’ says Ilhan Omar after...
“In Minnesota, we know that organized people will always beat organized money. Despite outside efforts to defeat us, we once again broke turnout records. Despite the attacks, our support has only grown.”
Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than people realize
Drinking water should be assumed to be chemically unsafe until proven otherwise.
Watch: Palestinian American lawmaker gives speech the DNC wouldn’t allow on stage
Ruwa Romman, a Palestinian American and Georgia state representative, shares the speech she was barred from giving at the Democratic National Convention after the Harris campaign refused to allow a Palestinian voice onstage.
Gaza’s agony intensifies: Six months of carnage calls for global intervention
"Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people."
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.
Israeli MP Galit Distel Atbaryan advocates for erasing Gaza, raising alarm
An Israeli Member of Parliament's statement advocating for Gaza to be "erased from the face of the earth" raises alarm and highlights the intensifying rhetoric in the region.
The Super Bowl presidency
Five criteria for selecting the worst old white man to lead us.