It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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The FBI’s Dangerous Crackdown on "Black Identity Extremists"
The "BIE" movement, just recently invented by the F.B.I., is as frightening and dangerous as the bureau’s infamous Cointelpro program of the 1960s and ’70s under which J. Edgar Hoover set out to disrupt and destroy virtually any group with the word “black” in its name.
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Nebraska Clears Path for Keystone XL Pipeline, But Challenges Remain
The 3-2 vote by the Nebraska Public Service Commission helps clear the way for the pipeline linking Canada’s Alberta oil sands to refineries in the United States. But opponents have promised to tie the project up in court for years.
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There was Progress at the Global Climate Summit. Now Urgent Action Is Needed.
Host Fiji drove meaningful progress at COP23, but the annual conference has succeeded within an international negotiation context that moves too slowly – mainly due to large industrial nations reluctant to rapidly transform their energy economies.
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Why We Need to Confront the Billionaires’ Paradise
Did your net worth grow by 17 percent last year? Unless you’re one of the world’s 1,542 billionaires, chances are it didn’t.
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Sexual Misconduct Scandals Focus on the Weinsteins, but Largely Ignore Their Poorer Victims
"Women in low-wage jobs, like hotel cleaners or farm workers, experience high levels of harassment because they do not have the bargaining power to push back."
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His Act of Defiance Went Viral. Now Elected, Braxton Winston Aims To Fix the System From Within
One of the newest faces of politics in Trump-era America is a man who became a prominent activist after a police shooting in Charlotte and a snapshot that went viral.
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Young, Brilliant, Criminal: Lauri Love and the Internet Activists Taking On U.S. Government
Love was arrested two years ago over his alleged participation in Operation Last Resort, carried out under the name of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. His lawyers argue that extraditing him from Britain would violate his human rights.
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15,000 Scientists Give Catastrophic Warning About the Fate of the World in New "Letter to Humanity"
"Time is running out."
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Town’s Private Prison Goes Bust
Contrary to popular belief, private prisons often don’t save the economies of the rural towns that seek them out.
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Trump Administration Seeks to Delay Findings on Pesticides
"It's appallingly clear that the pesticide industry is now essentially running Trump's EPA – rather than following the science and the law, the agency is turning its back on endangered species across the country."
