In Alaska, Theatrics Of Obama's Climate Agenda Don't Measure Up To Promises – Or Reality

Despite his soaring rhetoric, the closer we get to the end of President Obama's presidency, the more obvious it is that a dangerous duality has ruled his policy circles – one favoring short-term interests over the very fate of the planet.

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The Other 1%: Healing the Wounds Of Native American Tragedies On Turtle Island

Issues of police brutality – like the July killing of Paul Castaway near Denver – are opening the public's eyes to the continuing struggles of Native Americans and other groups unfairly targeted by law enforcement.

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How Movements Decide: Formal Consensus and Its Discontents

One of the main attributes of Formal Consensus is the intention to be non-adversarial – to ignore the traditional “us vs. them” paradigm that has increasingly paralyzed politics – but in many cases it hasn't worked.

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The Green Alternative: Prez Candidate Jill Stein On What It Will Take To Win In 2016

"The public is really hungry for a politics of integrity – and that’s what we’ve got and they don't."

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Beyond Ag-Gag: One North Carolina Law Is Bringing the War on Whistleblowers to A New Level

No longer just targeting animal rights activists, the Property Protection Act outlaws exposing abuse at elder care facilities, day cares and charter schools – revealing the power of ALEC-backed legislation at the state level.

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Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent

While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress is a victory for civil liberties advocates, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.

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Why a Death Sentence for Mohamed Morsi Signals the End of the Arab Spring

The timing of Morsi's death sentence couldn’t have been better for Egyptian authorities – since the U.S. news media that week was focused on another high profile death sentence, that of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

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Solutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work

New York City is home to the country’s largest worker-owned co-op, Co-operative Home Care Associates, which employs some 2,300 workers, mainly immigrant and minority women in the South Bronx.

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Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings

As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.

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“Acts of Passion”: What This Washington Post Investigation Tells Us About Fatal Police Shootings

The Post’s analysis doesn't confirm that race was a factor in dozens of shootings, but the fact that more than 75% of the officers involved were white, and two-thirds of the victims were minorities, leads observers to believe race played a factor.

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