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Fossil fuel extraction threatens Africa’s remaining elephants
The growing global outcry against the destruction caused by the oil and gas industry has pushed leaders to address their actions to...
Michigan initiatives clash on how to stop GOP’s election deniers
Competing state constitutional amendments go to different lengths to enshrine voting rights and target anti-voter legislation and court rulings.
Why the voting rights struggle is a tipping point for American...
E.J. Jenkins vividly recalls the day his mom worked a voter registration drive at a grocery store in Gary, Indiana, and followed...
How Joe Manchin betrayed America’s working families
Ed Barnette long ago realized that affordable child care and paid sick leave, among other resources, would be essential to helping West...
Kamala vs. Mitt: Two different viewpoints of family planning prefigure different...
Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.
How the Build Back Better bill will help millions of Americans...
“It’s not just about the elderly. Hearing loss doesn’t magically happen in old age. It gradually occurs over years and years. It’s something that could be prevented.”
COP26: Climate pledges don’t match up with policies—or consumer behavior
The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road.
COP26: Will humanity’s ‘last and best chance’ to save earth’s climate...
here is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities.
Why America needs a national program of paid sick and family...
America remains the only major industrialized country without a universal paid leave program.
Biden’s revenge: Fueling ‘madness of militarism’
The president’s pledge of revenge in Afghanistan was a prelude to yet another episode of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”
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EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
The first trillionaire – no big deal?
Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water
A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls
The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran
The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.