LGBTQ workers still face employment discrimination
In an era when 90 percent of America believes it is unfair to discriminate against someone due to their sexual orientation, it’s remarkable we haven’t made this law.
Three Republicans vote to kill Senate effort to repeal Obamacare
All it took was three Republicans to vote against the bill. Has this killed Republicans efforts to repeal Obamacare for good?
The Democrats’ new agenda is everything that’s wrong with the party
More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.
The resistance to health care repeal rolls on
The effort to kill Obamacare is not complete. Expect vigorous protests throughout August.
Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses
The study adds weight to the idea that the most effective deforestation enforcement strategy is not to regulate the Amazon’s 400,000 ranchers and farmers, but for government to enter into effective deforestation enforcement partnerships with the slaughterhouses.
Burning Raqqa
The U.S. war against civilians in Syria.
Billionaire donors plot a ‘renaissance of freedom’ – for the privileged
Who needs roads when you've got a private jet?
US leads world in inequality, and it is getting worse
“Inequality is not inevitable.” Yet the United States continues to widen the inequality gap.
Capitol Hill staff prevent journalists from reporting on health care protesters
In at least one case, a journalist says he was forced to delete a video he had recorded.
UK bans all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040
"A clear policy to move people towards cleaner vehicles by banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans after 2040 is welcome."