Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 30, 2018
California wildfires rage, Philadelphia refuses to share information with ICE, Koch brothers turn on Trump, and more.
Protesters Lock Their Bodies to Machines to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline
Native Americans from across the U.S. and Canada continue to arrive at the resistance camps to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some of them locked themselves to the heavy machinery.
It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United
Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”
Congressman’s wife pleads guilty to misusing campaign funds
Margaret Hunter recently pleaded guilty in federal court to her and her husband using their campaign funds as their private bank account for years.
Profiting from the pandemic: Will pharmaceutical giants use patents to limit access to COVID...
The truth is that a lot of us hold out hope for when this pandemic will end, thinking that it’ll end when treatments and vaccines emerge, when a cure emerges.
Global food crops also face Earth’s sixth great mass extinction
We need to get away from a focus on ‘feeding the world’ and move toward ‘nourishing the world.’
The racism heard round the world
When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem.
Engaging North Korea successfully on human rights
Despite a generally abysmal human rights record, North Korea has shown improvement in one specific area: disability rights.
BREAKING: Justice Department drops charges against Trump inauguration protesters
Prosecutors have admitted to having no evidence of defendants committing any crimes.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Earliest Earth overshoot day ever, it's been over a year since MSNBC mentioned the war in Yemen, Trump wants to strip security clearance of those who have criticized him, and more.