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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Why Protests Haven't Stopped Over Minneapolis Police Killing Of Jamar Clark
Activists are calling not only for justice for Clark but also for an end to racist policing and unequal socioeconomic structures throughout the city and state.
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Privacy Advocates In Uproar Over UK Cyber Surveillance Bill
Following terror attacks on Paris last month, the spectre of a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill now looms over Britain as lawmakers debate instituting the most invasive cyber-surveillance regime to date.
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Paris Dispatch: Baselines for Our Occupying Earth Have Been Breached
In the global slugfest going on now in Paris over feasible outcomes and future dangers, the relevant – and unprecedented – number to remember is 400 parts per million of carbon in the air.
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Carbon Inequality: World's Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Half Of All CO2
The poorest half of the world meanwhile emits only a fraction of that amount, yet faces severe climate change effects.
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Foreign Fracking Company Quietly Buys Rights To Botswana Conservation Park
Top park officials were not informed of the fracking rights sale at Kgalagadi transfrontier park, borderin South Africa, are now worried about the impact of drilling on rare wildlife.
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Justice for Sale: How Rich Corporations Get Away with Murder
As we saw with the unequal punishments handed down to Peanut Corporation of America and General Motors, the wealthiest corporations – like individuals – can buy their way out of the rule of law.
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Thin Green Line: Does Pacific Northwest Hold Key To Our Climate Future?
With huge gas and coal export terminals planned in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, "this sliver of coast basically is what stands between companies wrecking the climate or not.”
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COP21 Dispatch: Can Cows Save the Planet?
The relatively simple shift to holistic grazing has sanity and simplicity behind it – now, many want to see if carbon-smart farming can make soil sexy.
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Chicago Police Chief Fired After Laquan McDonald Shooting Revelations
“Police officers are only effective if they are trusted by all Chicagoans."
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Coal CEO Wants Texas Political Cowboy to Expand Probe of Climate Scientists
Robert Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, disputes government data on global warming, claims regulators are “not telling hardly any truth,” and blames "crony capitalists" for climate debate.
