Real Progressive Change Is Happening From the Ground Up Real Progressive Change Is Happening From the Ground Up
In Wisconsin, a new model for building power is blazing a trail for progressive change.
Aug 20, 2018 / Robert L. Borosage
New York City Has ‘a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity’ to Create an Internet for All New York City Has ‘a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity’ to Create an Internet for All
“Dead skunks on the highway” are more popular than cable companies, so why not replace them with something better?
Aug 20, 2018 / Teke Wiggin
To Fight Mass Incarceration, We Need to Decriminalize Trauma To Fight Mass Incarceration, We Need to Decriminalize Trauma
At Homeboy Industries, career, education, and mental-health services are creating a way out of poverty and violence.
Aug 20, 2018 / Robert Greenwald
The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship The Other Mandela Is Going to Help End Scott Walker’s Governorship
Economic and social- and racial-justice activist Mandela Barnes was just nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin.
Aug 17, 2018 / John Nichols
Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent? Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent?
The Muslim mother of seven is betting that she, too, can take down a high-ranking career politician, in Massachusetts’s First Congressional District.
Aug 17, 2018 / Will Meyer
‘An Eternal Night of Persecution and Death’: Activists Speak Out About Nicaragua’s Crackdown ‘An Eternal Night of Persecution and Death’: Activists Speak Out About Nicaragua’s Crackdown
Despite mass killings and newly authoritarian laws, a diverse opposition says the movement to oust Ortega is far from over.
Aug 17, 2018 / Maia Hibbett
Monsanto Just Lost a Case Linking Its Weed Killer to Cancer Monsanto Just Lost a Case Linking Its Weed Killer to Cancer
A jury ruled that the corporation knew Roundup could cause harm, but failed to warn users.
Aug 17, 2018 / Rene Ebersole
Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter
Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”
Aug 16, 2018 / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Trump Quietly OK’s Bioengineered Farming on Wildlife Refuges Trump Quietly OK’s Bioengineered Farming on Wildlife Refuges
By rescinding an Obama-era regulation, the administration is giving a green light to agribusiness on protected lands.
Aug 16, 2018 / Michelle Chen