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“Storm the Heavens”: Notes From the Weather Underground on Resistance to Trump
Former members of the Weather Underground share their perspectives on resisting empire under the Trump regime.
Is Soil the Great New Integrator?
Farmers are learning to work with the land instead of against it.
Single-Payer Health Care Is Seeing Record Support in Congress
Thanks to the repeal debacle, the GOP has inadvertently helped make single-payer part of the national conversation.
The Surprising Truth Behind Tax Day: Where Your Taxes Go
Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money. But we don't have to …
Abrupt Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Before
We need a law to regulate climate pollution just like we do other forms of pollution, to overcome doubt and apathy.
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Indigenous Groups, Amazon’s Best Land Stewards, Under Federal Attack
Brazil's Temer government, backed by the agribusiness lobby, seems determined to reduce Indigenous rights and end recognition of new Indigenous territories.
Workers Cheated as Federal Contractors Prosper
Analysis found that government agencies paid $18 billion over an 18-month period to companies with wage violations.
Portland Public Schools First to Put Global Climate Justice in Classroom
Students learn about the front lines of global warming and how to be climate activists.
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For-Profit ICE Jail Faces Second Hunger Strike in Two Years
Prisoners are demanding speedier hearings, improved food and health care access and lower prices at the prison's store.
Ralph Nader Explains Why United Airlines Has “Total Unbridled Discretion to Throw You Off a Plane”
Ralph Nader, who advocated for compensation for those bumped from flights in the 1970s, discusses the recent United Airlines brutality.