In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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Marijuana Investor Plans Hedge Fund to Invest in Reverse Mergers
Leslie Bocskor is also forming a consulting firm to assist state governments in setting up regulatory guidelines for cannabis use.
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Pay Up or Do Time: Alabama’s Private Probation Industry
Alabamians who can't pay a fine may end up in a vicious cycle of fees and even jail time – and someone's profiting.
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Mapping The Money: A New Tool To Track Political Influence This Election Season
A group of watchdogs at Maplight has introduced an interactive tool to track not only the level and location of political donations, but how the money impacts specific pieces of legislation.
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Is Corruption a Constitutional Right?
Does Wall Street have a constitutional right to influence politicians and the investment decisions? It’s being left up to the courts to decide.
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Why Corporations Breaking Environmental Laws Are Getting A Free Pass
Grappling with a shrinking budget and limited manpower, the EPA now pursues criminal charges in “fewer than one-half of one percent” of total legal violations.
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Whose Streets, Our Streets: The 2014 Cell Phone Guide For U.S. Protesters
A lot has changed since we last published this report during the Occupy movement in 2011. With major protests in the news again, we decided it's time to update our cell phone guide for protestors.
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The New Media Movement Is Here: 20 News Sites Kicking Our Generation Into Action
With a shift in media underway, there's an opportunity for alternative online news sources to turn youth apathy into engagement and cynicism into a demand for social and political change.
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Thousands In Europe to Form International Human Chain Against "Climate Bomb" Coal Mine
Thousands of climate activists from across Europe are expected to join local protesters on the German-Polish border for a mass demonstration against a huge coal mining project.
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Bank of America Pays $17 Billion To Settle Mortgage Fraud – And You Call That Justice?
This is the largest fine so far, but yet again there seems to be a reluctance to name and punish the individuals responsible.
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World's Biggest PR Company Axes Climate Change Deniers – But Forgets About A.L.E.C.
If Edelman is serious about not working for groups that deny climate change, it needs to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council – which which works harder than anyone to block climate policy.
