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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Keystone is Down, But Pipelines Threaten From Virginia to Wisconsin
Keystone set a precedent for people turning up and engaging, and seeing that sometimes you can actually stop this.
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Pro-Austerity Regime Ousted In Portugal As Leftist Coalition Seizes Power
Socialist leader and former Lisbon Mayor António Costa is poised to become Portugal's prime minister after Greens and the Left Bloc voted out the rightwing government to “turn the page” on austerity.
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Not So Securus: Massive Hack Of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Is a Constitutional Violation
An enormous cache of phone records from Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation's prisons and jails, may be the most massive breach of the attorney-client privilege in modern U.S. history.
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Here's What A Solidarity Economy Looks Like – from Quebec to Chicago to Mexico
Montreal’s first Community Development Corporation was created in 1984, and since then the community-based economic model has spurred 15 such corporations across the province.
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Spies At School: F.B.I. "Puppet" Program Would Train Students To Identify Extremism
The agency has delayed the launch of its counterradicalization website amid an uproar from Muslim activists and civil rights groups, who say the program will institutionalize discriminatory profiling of Muslim youths.
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Lonely At the Top: Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of the "Isolated" Rich
As they stroll through Manhattan's Central Park, the 1% of the 1% unburden themselves about the guilt, secrecy and isolation they feel as the country's super rich.
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Historic Victory In Myanmar As Suu Kyi and Democracy Movement Win Landslide Election
In the first free nationwide election in a quarter of a century, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party conceded defeat as the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and her followers swept to power.
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The Digital Dog Ate Our Civil Liberties Homework: “It’s Just the Way It Is”
Of all the excuses ladled out for the Obama administration's shredding of the 4th Amendment while assaulting press freedom and prosecuting whistleblowers, none is more pernicious than the claim that technology is responsible.
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Another Money Is Possible, Part III: Holland Leads Experiment In Basic Income
10 to 15 Dutch municipalities are working on plans for a basic income trial – to give money away for free, turning the welfare model on its head – with broad support from major political parties and civil society.
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Million Student March On Nov. 12 Calls for Free Tuition and End to Debt
“We’re waking up with empty hands and empty pockets and realizing that we shouldn’t be shackled to debt before we even enter the adult world."
