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Judge Tosses Charges Against 3 Indigenous Water Protectors for Pipeline Action
“I’m glad to not be in jail,” says environmental activist Winona LaDuke. “I’m not a criminal, and Enbridge is.”
Filmmaker Connects Dots Between Fugitive Slave Law and Modern-Day “Karens”
Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson documents the history of anti-Black police violence in “Sound of the Police.”
Government Shutdown Looms as Far Right Lawmakers Battle Kevin McCarthy
There are options to avoid a shutdown — and the Freedom Caucus is standing in the way of all of them, says Ryan Grim.
Dorothy Roberts Lays Out a Damning Exposé of Medical Racism and “Child Welfare”
Scholar Dorothy Roberts exposes effects of anti-Black mythmaking and calls for an end to the family policing system.
DOJ Indicts Hunter Biden on Gun Charges as GOP Launches Impeachment Inquiry
For the first time in U.S. history, the Justice Department has criminally charged the child of a sitting president.
Deaf Students and Educators Face Harrowing Conditions in Hearing Schools
Deaf educator Rachel Zemach is sounding the alarm on educational injustice.
Naomi Klein: Only a Robust, Organized Left Can Defeat Conspiracy Culture
A lack of understanding about how capitalism works will leave people vulnerable to conspiracy theories, argues Klein.
A Mass Climate Mobilization Is Taking Place Sunday. Here’s Why It’s Urgent.
Economist Robert Pollin analyzes the state of the global green transition in the lead-up to Sunday’s mass protest.
We Can Survive Together by Becoming Kin
“What kind of story are we setting ourselves up to replicate in the world?” asks "Becoming Kin" author Patty Krawec.
Libyan Youth Climate Activist Says Flooding Disaster Was Not a Surprise
“I’m hoping that this tragedy could be the turning point” to take the climate crisis more seriously, says Nissa Bek.