Jeff Sessions sets back the clock
How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us?
Donald Trump’s swamp: Meet ten potential energy and climate cabinet picks and the pickers
Nearly everyone who remains on Trump's likely climate and energy list, or is helping pick those positions, has ties to corporate lobbying, corporate leadership, or corporate-funded think tanks.
Indigenous Peruvians protest mining pollution
In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me.
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.
Tax the rich? We did that once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
Americans must demand a credible investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime — it’s against U.S. law, too.
BNSF Engineer Who Manned Exploding North Dakota ‘Bomb Train’ Sues Former Employer
A former BNSF employee is suing his former employer because he has gone through, and continues to go through, severe and permanent injuries and damages after the company's oil-by-rail train exploded while he was on the job.
From pseudo-democracy to real participation
True democracy is an expression of the brotherhood of man.
The theocratic scourge when a fundamentalist minority wars against diverse, majority rule politics
What the savvy Founders elevated was an enlightened chain of being that linked freedom, secular democracy and the exclusion of a state religion.
Medicaid purge has now impacted at least 2.1 million people—including many children
"States like Florida and Arkansas are weaponizing the bureaucracy against the poor and revoking healthcare for millions, the vast majority for incomplete paperwork."