Pentagon to lift Trump-era ban on transgender troops
“Trans rights are human rights,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “and on this #TransDayOfVisibility, I’m pleased to announce we've updated DoD policy on the open service of transgender individuals.”
How not to build a ‘great, great wall’
As long as the United States keeps coming up with new ways to fortify the border, people will keep coming up with new ways to beat the border.
“A Barrett confirmation is a catastrophe”: What Democrats can do to block Trump’s Supreme...
“A 6-3 majority on the court is basically a bomb coming at what is left of our protections against corruption in politics, against corporate money, against what is left of the Voting Rights Act.”
Prison without walls: Understanding the crisis in Kashmir
Besides the wildfires currently raging through the Amazon, which provides the oxygen for every fifth breath you take, the most dangerous place...
The DNC fiddles while the world burns
While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.
Trump advisers privately warned GOP donors about COVID-19 in February while telling public virus...
There is a discrepancy between Trump's cheerful public messaging to Americans in February and the less optimistic information that White House officials shared simultaneously with GOP donors.
Once upon a time, a nation of laws
If only, as a nation, we could look beyond the tumultuous context of the current moment and imagine how to make our way to a safer, more sustainable future.
North Korea Confirms its First Hydrogen Nuclear Bomb Test
North Korean government has stated that the 5.1 magnitude quake event was a successful hydrogen nuclear bomb test.
Everybody in, nobody out
A democratic society means that everyone, including the poor, has a say in how our lives are lived and workplaces organized.
The 7 biggest failures of Tumponomics
Trumponomics has exploded the deficit, hurt ordinary Americans, and lined the pockets of the wealthy and corporations.