US plans to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, and Russia
Leaked State Department drafts show significant omissions of abuses, including against LGBTQ+ people and political corruption, in reports on key U.S. allies.
The Tragedy of being a Girl in India
Due to the fact that girls are seen as an economic burden and boys a source of income, girl babies have been aborted and murdered in their millions in India. Adolescent and adult females are treated no better. These corrupt social practices need to end.
The Supreme Court Wasn’t Designed For This Political Heat
The confrontation over selecting a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court shows how politicized our courts have become, exposing judicial decisions as political choices rather than legal ones.
Skyrocketing military spending undermines development aid to world’s poor
Over 100 countries increased their military budgets, with the top ten spenders alone accounting for 73 percent of the total.
Senator Cory Booker is wrong—ICE doesn’t need ‘better training,’ ICE needs to be abolished
That being said, it’s the wholesale cowardice of the democratic party that is the cause of this disease—fascism.
Bernie is back
His success four years ago may impede his second candidacy. Not only is he four years older, Bernie is no longer the only progressive in town.
To ensure every vote counts, Elizabeth Warren says amend the Constitution and ‘get rid...
"When you've got a government that works for the rich and it's not working nearly as well for anyone else, that's corruption, and we need to call it out plain and simple."
$1 Billion Spent in 2016 Presidential Race — and Other Numbers to Know
Big money, and plenty of oddities, mark latest round of campaign disclosures.
Suppressed: The true story of Georgia’s 2018 election (video)
The result is an emotionally gripping look at Georgia’s citizens that also lays out compelling and irrefutable evidence of voter suppression.
The U.S. constitution was meant to be a work in progress
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal’s first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it’s still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.