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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"Tipping Point": Americans Organizing More Than Ever After Florida Shooting
Outraged by the country’s mass shooting epidemic, gun reform groups say they've seen an unprecedented jump in membership and activity since last month's massacre at a Florida high school.
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Why Homelessness for Women Is a Lot Harder Than It Is For Men
Women who face the challenges of homelessness have to deal with additional factors when they find themselves without a place to live.
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America’s Richest 2% Made More Money in 2017 Than the Cost of the Entire Safety Net
Those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million accumulated enough wealth in 2017 alone to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES over.
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North Pole Surges Above Freezing in the Dead of Winter, Stunning Scientists
The sun won’t rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it’s normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend.
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A New Right Rising: Can Spain Kill Franco's Ghost?
"I will fight for a Spanish Republic until my last day," said 79-year-old Antonio Cabañero, in a crowd outside the Catalan Parliament as protesters continued to call for the region's independence from Spain.
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Dozens of Public Lands Advocates Say Trump Administration 'Shut Them Out'
Groups comprised of ranchers, hunters and conservationists say Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has stonewalled them.
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Police Believe a Journalist Was Killed for Reporting On Fraud in the Heart of Europe
Ján Kuciak, a 27-year-old investigative reporter, and his partner, Marina Kusnirova, were found dead in their apartment Sunday in a village east of the capital of Bratislava, after Kuciak's writing exposed tax evasion among Slovak elites.
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236 Mayors Urge EPA Not to Repeal U.S. Clean Power Plan
The mayors, representing 51 million people across 47 states, told Scott Pruitt the Obama-era emissions rules are needed to protect their cities from climate change.
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Capitalism as Obstacle to Equality and Democracy: The U.S. Story
The conclusion we draw from the U.S. story is not that efforts to reverse deepening inequality are foredoomed to failure – it is that mere reforms such as tax law changes are inadequate to the task. To make reforms stick requires going further to basic system change.
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Hacktivists Are Helping Fight Terrorism. So Why Do So Many of Them Face Jailtime?
America's aggressive sentencing against computer crimes is unmatched by any nation, despite the U.S.'s long and storied history of celebrating peaceful civil disobedience.
