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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TransCanada Asks the State Department To Suspend Review Of the Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada has lost, and it’s one of the climate movement's great victories.
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Why Did U.S. Spend $43 Million To Build A Single Gas Station In Afghanistan?
The revelation marks the latest example of wild, ill-conceived overspending on projects that have come at an exorbitant cost to U.S. taxpayers.
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Today This Major City May Become the First to Have Publicly-Financed Elections
The Honest Elections Seattle initiative allows citizens to spend no more than $100 in "Democracy vouchers" on any given election.
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Anonymous Vows To Unhood 1,000 Ku Klux Klan Members
The hacktivist collective says it will release the identities around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.
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The One Guy Who Can Fix Politics Is the One Guy Democrats Won't Let You Hear About
Lawrence Lessig is all about clean, fair, functioning government, so naturally he's viewed as public enemy number one by our dirty, rigged, dysfunctional politicians – and on Monday he dropped out of the presidential race.
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Whistleblowers In Canada To Receive $1.5 Million For Exposing Corporate Crimes
Hefty financial rewards could go to whistleblowers after a formal policy was unveiled last week by the Ontario Securities Commission to encourage those in the know to help ferret out corporate wrongdoing.
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Another Money Is Possible, Part II: Avoid the Next Financial Crash with People's Q.E.
People’s Quantitative Easing could transform the economy to serve society, it could prevent the next global financial crash – or, in the aftermath, it could provide an economic escape route for societies worldwide.
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Civil Rights Groups Tackle Illegal Bail Schemes As More Poor People Fill Jails
The Supreme Court and the Justice Department have both said that incarcerating someone solely because they can't afford to post cash bail is unconstitutional, but that was the policy in Ascension Parish until just a few weeks ago.
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Seattle Voters Take Aim At Big Money In Politics
Ballot initiative I-122 will create a public financing model in which residents would give $100 in vouchers to the candidates of their choice.
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Blue Canary In the Coal Mine: Why Is Twitter Rolling Out New Censorship Tools?
To many, the Internet is seen as a largely unregulated open marketplace of ideas and speech, where absent any outright violations of law, violations of website terms of service (TOS), or statements made in a directly dangerous and threatening way, comm
