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President Obama “Actively” Pondering End of Dormant Muslim Surveillance Scheme, Ahead of Trump
The White House is reportedly thinking about scrapping a controversial immigration surveillance program.
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They Lost Their Jungles to Plantations, but These Indigenous Women Grew Them Back
A large Indigenous tribal group of India has relied for generations on a rich and diverse variety of native millets and foraged jungle foods.
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Amid Dakota Access Protests, Tribes Continue to Pursue Clean Energy
Seven Sioux tribes in the Dakotas are developing what would be an enormous collection of wind farms on six reservations.
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Critics Call $3 Billion Sabal Trail Pipeline Florida’s Dakota Access Pipeline
Another pipeline project at the other end of the US is quietly being installed as fast as possible.
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Teacher Shortages Are Looming, but It Doesn’t Need to Be This Way
Teaching was deliberately feminized over a century ago so that public school teachers could be paid less.
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Oklahoma Political Elite Fan the Flames of Environmental Deregulation in Trump’s US
Is this the countdown to the next Wounded Knee?
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Fast Food Nation: Trump Set to Name Minimum Wage-Hating Burger Czar as Labor Secretary
Andrew Puzder has been an outspoken critic of some of the Obama administration's most prominent labor initiatives.
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Great Barrier Reef Suffered Worst Coral Die-Off on Record in 2016
In the northern region of the Great Barrier Reef, about 67 percent of the corals have died over the last eight to nine months.
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Shutting Down the Panopticon: A Report From Inside the Stateville Correctional Center
Prisoners at the roach-infested and noisy Stateville panopticon prison may soon be moving to other facilities.
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Defiant After Dakota Setback, Texas Company Eyes Pipeline Through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin
Energy Transfer Partners appears to have a powerful ally in Republican Trump.