Thursday, April 25, 2024

Patriotic Millionaires urge global leaders to combat tax avoidance through wealth tax on world’s...

"We need to foster a recovery beyond regressing to the same-old, same-old. We need to tax the rich.”

Supreme Court weighs voting rights in a pivotal Arizona case

The case considers two Arizona laws that place limits on how and when Arizonans can vote.
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I will not yield my values: Fired AP journalist Emily Wilder speaks out after...

Less than 48 hours after Stanford College Republicans began to post about me, I was fired.”

Rivers are key to restoring the world’s biodiversity

Biodiversity is plummeting, but restoring rivers could quickly reverse this disastrous trend.
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The secret tax loophole making the rich even richer

Close this stepped-up basis loophole, and we help finance the programs the vast majority of Americans desperately need and deserve.

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.

Immigrants to the rescue

It’s useful to bear the German experience in mind as the United States once again tackles its own “immigration crisis.”

Ugandan farmers whose land will soon become a crude oil pipeline pathway lose years...

After years of uncertainty, communities are demanding proper compensation from major oil companies who will soon begin construction of a major pipeline through their land.

Public health crisis looms as California identifies 600 communities at risk of water-system failures

A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them.

California approves $44 million electric vehicle infrastructure program

"This decision is another step toward meeting California’s deep decarbonization and ambitious transportation electrification goals."