Why gutting this agency amounts to playing with fire
“If it weren’t for NIOSH, we wouldn’t have the reliable and safe gear we do today. We’d be smoke eaters.”
For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct
California is set to launch a database for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. Setting up a similar system for public school teachers, however, is proving more complicated.
‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants
Religiously based moral outrage at Trump’s immigration policies seems to be spurring some long-overdue rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America.
Study confirms extinction risk of reptiles could have ‘devastating’ effect on ecosystem
A study conducted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species warned that the extinction...
New bill aims to reverse the GOP’s giveaway of ANWR lands to fossil fuel...
“This bill calls a halt to the Administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters."
How Tennessee’s justice system allows dangerous people to keep guns — with deadly outcomes
Michaela Carter was one of at least 75 people killed in domestic violence shootings in Nashville since 2007. Nearly 40% were shot by people who were legally barred from having a gun.
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.
Europe’s climate movement is fractured and stuck—here is a way forward
The climate movement of the past will not win the struggle today.
The Donald also rises?
For all practical purposes, right-wing populists will have taken over the world.
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."