Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: children

The inequality to be suffered by our children

Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.

On World Children’s Day, human rights group calls on Trump administration...

"All children deserve to be safe and protected, to live with their parents and their families, and to have their voices heard."

Teenagers in space

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn, and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

A child at world’s end

A mother thinks about the inheritance of children.

EPA is failing to protect school children from asbestos, internal watchdog...

"Without compliance inspections, the EPA cannot know whether schools pose an actual risk of asbestos exposure to students and personnel."

Study: Children have better nutrition when they live near forests

The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets. We show that forests cause these improvements."
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40 Yemeni children dead by US-made bomb? Outrage mounts over US...

The massacre of school boys between the ages of 6 and 11 was one of the worst attacks on children in the history of Yemen’s brutal war.

Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma...

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai...

“Am I pleased that the 12 children and their coach in Thailand were rescued? Of course I am. I just wish that an equivalent effort was being made to rescue each of the 50,000 children we will kill today, tomorrow, the next day and the day after that….”

Psychologist: Separating children at the border creates trauma passed down through...

"We speak with Dr. Dana Sinopoli, a psychologist who penned an open letter condemning the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their parents at the border."

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Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

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.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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.
A guided bomb unit JDAM kit, the same guidance kit at the center of the proposed Saudi sale, is assembled by U.S. partner-nation forces in the Middle East. Photo: U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Staff Sgt. Jovante Johnson (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.