The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Elizabeth Warren: Coming to a Post Office Near You – Loans You Can Trust
The U.S. Postal Service is exploring offering basic banking services – bill paying, check cashing, small loans – to its customers and partnering with banks to serve tens of millions of Americans who lack checking or savings accounts.
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Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as E.P.A. Considers Waste Rules
A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, N.C., caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into the Dan River.
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No More Red Scares: Fighting Fair Against Keystone XL and Fossil Fuel Expansion
Tom Steyer and NextGen Climate’s anti-Keystone pipeline ad made Americans sit up.
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Shell's Pullout From Arctic Casts Doubts on Future of American Fossil Fuel Investing
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant announced a sweeping strategic overhaul that suspends its Alaskan drilling program, and admits it jumped "too quickly" into fracking exploration in the U.S.
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Glenn Greenwald, Fellow Snowden Reporters Expected To Win Top Journalism Award
Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill and Barton Gellman are up for the George Polk award.
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Europe's Slow City Movement Puts Sustainability and Community At the Forefront
The Slow City movement hopes to provide an antidote against negative globalization.
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Xenophobia in San Francisco: Why Are Muslim Schoolgirls Still Getting Bullied?
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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Global Scientists Rebuke F.C.T. Journal For "Censorship" After Rat-Tumor GM Monsanto Study Expelled
83 top scientists say the decision by the editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology to retract a paper that found GM corn and the Monsanto pesticide Roundup damaged the organs of rats was represents conflicts of interest and sets a dangerous precedent.
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Why Washington’s Polarization and Gridlock Work to Enrich the 1%
Washington gridlock helps the super-rich stay rich, and get richer. And the richer they get, the more the gridlock actually helps them.
