Muhammad Ali’s son detained at airport and questioned about religion
The Ali family is currently considering filing a federal lawsuit while seeking out others who received similar discriminatory treatment as Ali and his mother.
The vision and legacy of Berta Cáceres
An interview with Berta Zúñiga Cáceres and Laura Zúñiga Cáceres.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 21
Microplastics in beer, CNN "fact check" on Medicare for All is bogus, ZInke caught red handed trying to sell off public lands, and more.
Hey! Democracy! Choices!
Our enlightened self-interest is at stake, the well-being of our children and grandchildren is in the balance. Let’s do right.
America the unfree
Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.
Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...
On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.
Going backwards on rights with Trump
Or are we going in circles?
For Rent: The GOP’s No. 3
How long has Rep. Steve Scalise been involved in Congress' take-and-give game with lobbyists? Ever since he starting writing the rules that give such corruption a pass. As Scalise puts it, he must “keep and expand our [Republican] majority in Congress.”
Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s ban on asylum for immigrants who illegally cross
The trump administration's ban conflicts with current immigration law.
Supreme Court allows fracked gas pipeline’s use of eminent domain. But the pipeline’s victory...
The decision could give private companies more power to take state land, but experts point to a thicket of legal obstacles that remain in the pipeline’s way.








