Student debt reaches more than $1 trillion – an all-time high
"We are crushing the next generation with debt."
Empires are a secret until they start falling
As the US loses its position of global supremacy, we have an opportunity to fundamentally reshape what we as a nation represent.
Study reveals Americans own 40 percent of all guns owned in the world
“The biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States.”
Back to thoughts and prayers: Donald Trump abandons support for enhanced background checks
"It's the people that pull the trigger, it's not the gun that pulls the trigger."
Investigation finds at least $800M in taxpayer money went to funding for-profit immigrant prisons...
"To the extent that the industry is in the business of expanding the system so they can make more money off holding more immigrants that can be confined, and doing everything possible to profit off of it by labor processes like getting detainees to work and paying them a dollar a day, there is very little distinction you can draw between slave labor and what they're doing."
Immigrants seeking shelter after Hurricane Florence fear deportation as FEMA shifts funds to ICE
The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.
A nation of the walking dead
The corporate state will expand our access to a variety of opioids and numbing situations to temporarily alleviate our stress, financial dislocations, depression and anxiety.
A time of hope for Ethiopia
As the country begins to move forward, those working for change need to be encouraged and supported in their efforts.
New campaign: Classrooms Not Computers, stop education profiteering
The devil is in the details. The devil is in the data.
While poorest scapegoated, analysis of 25 world’s wealthiest families a reminder of inequality’s economic...
"It's funny that the real truth about income inequality is not coming from the south like some would like you to believe—the sucking sound draining the middle-class is the 1 percent... Just saying."