Activists are pushing back against the proposed prison expansions in Massachusetts and advocating for implementing alternatives to relying on bail and pretrial incarceration.
Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?
The 21st century United States needs many services the private sector doesn't provide so well, such as preschool and post-secondary education and health and dental care.
Richmond's city council is only one vote short of the supermajority needed to pursue eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and renegotiate them on behalf of homeowners, and it …
In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that states and local governments with a history of discrimination no longer needed to submit new voting laws for federal approval.
Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …