Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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From Necessity Comes Hope: How Athenians Have Begun Solving Greece's Refugee Housing Crisis
Collectivist undertakings like the Elpída Home Project – which has welcomed in hundreds of refugees in Thessaloniki – repurposed an abandoned space by equipping the common areas with electricity, running water, plumbing and kitchens.
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Cut Corporate Taxes? This is How the Biggest Companies Cheated on Taxes in 2016
Corporations make billions from U.S. research and education, but then they turn around and cheat us on taxes. And Republicans think corporations should get a tax break.
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Speak No Evil: Many Americans Don’t Know It, but Their Employers Can Censor Their Political Speech
"Corporate censorship is much more common than most people recognize... [as] employers use their financial power to control employees' free speech and political behavior."
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The Life-or-Death Battle of Britain’s 2017 Election
The Conservative Party is tearing Britain apart – its imposition of Brexit and other English-centric policies for the richest have galvanized Scottish independence and Irish reunification as ever more attractive escape routes.
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Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to "Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies"
A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states.
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Trump’s New Bank Regulator: Lawyer Who Helped Banks Charge More Fees
Keith Noreika helped big banks avoid state laws protecting consumers. As head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, he now has the power to override those state laws.
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United Response to Bomb Attack: There Is No Place for Islamophobia on Manchester’s Streets
We’ll never understand or make sense of such a monstrous act. But what Manchester can, and is, showing is the multicultural passion that makes our city so inclusive and unique. That spirit is what will prevail and conquer.
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The Paper Company Threatening Ancient Boreal Forests – and Activists and Journalists
Resolute Forest Products provides the paper for the nation’s biggest newspapers and publishers. So it’s up to independent media to speak out.
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The Dakota Access Pipeline Has Sprung Two Leaks – And It Hasn't Even Started Operating Yet
It didn't take long for detractors of the Dakota Access Pipeline to have their fears met, with reports surfacing that the facility sprung two leaks in March, and one in April, leaking more than 100 gallons of oil before it was contained.
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DeVos’s Education Budget Throws Students to the Loan Sharks
Slashing $10.6 billion from federal education funding, the new budget plan includes $500 million to invest in charter schools, $250 million in voucher program expansion funding, and $1 billion to “push public schools to adopt choice-friendly policies.”
