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Republican chauvinists won this battle against women, but won’t win the...
But the good news is that women are going to make them pay a terrible price for their treachery in the very near future.
With the crisis of Kavanaugh’s confirmation comes opportunity
It’s a truism in political science that when regimes lose their legitimacy, major change – even revolution – becomes a possibility.
Ties of blood
Our deep and abiding connection with Mother Earth is what compels us to fight to protect it.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 5
Over 300 arrested at Senate offices during #CancelKavanaugh sit in, who talked to the FBI in the Kavanaugh investigation, Virgin Atlantic flies first commercial plane on recycled waste carbon gas and more.
‘They want to undo the #Metoo Movement:’ The people unite against...
Three hundred similar gatherings took place across the country, according to the organizers, including a wide number of groups like the Women's March, ACLU and Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Thousands of actions nationwide call for culture of nonviolence
Over the course of a week, tens of thousands of people connected the dots between racism, poverty, greed, war, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, and called for justice and a new culture of nonviolence.
Yale law students protest alum Brett Kavanaugh, demand investigation of sexual...
Yale students will “continue speaking out, speaking to the press, until we feel there is a full and fair investigation.”
Avenue Capital’s plans to revive West’s largest coal-fired power plant spark...
Members of the Navajo nation traveled from Arizona to Avenue Capital Group’s offices in New York City to push for a 2019 closure of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), near Page, Arizona.
Rise for Climate: Tens of thousands march in San Francisco calling...
The protest came just days before the start of the Global Climate Action Summit being organized by California Governor Jerry Brown.
A power more supreme than any judge
What matters most is not who is sitting on the Supreme Court, but who is “sitting in” and who is marching outside the Supreme Court, pushing for change.
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More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
The persistence of ‘Israel First’
Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”
How agave agroforestry can restore drylands and strengthen climate resilience
The agave-powered agroforestry and livestock management system is an example of how native desert plants, cultivated as part of an agroforestry system, can regenerate drylands and provide inexpensive animal feed, taking pressure off overgrazed rangelands.
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
Report: State textile laws spark massive drop in apparel PFAS levels
"No PFAS, No Problem: Product Testing Reveals Success of CA and NY PFAS Textile Laws" found that 80 percent of tested consumer products are now in compliance with newly enacted restriction.