On January 10, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (Summer EBT) would begin this year. Under the program, children who receive free or reduced lunch during the...
Our Take: There is a Cold War going on between the states. Julianne McShane January 12, 2024 Read the full article here Mother Jones
The cultural rifts between urban and rural America are a constant of our history. When they also become economic, they become dangerous. Harold Meyerson January 15, 2024 Read the full article here The American...
Gov. Mike Parson dissolved a panel that was reinvestigating Williams’s case before it could report its findings. Jordan Smith January 14, 2024 Read the full article here The Intercept
Dictionaries and encyclopedias are among the more than 2,800 books that a Florida school district has pulled from library shelves in an effort to comply with a law that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last year. Jake Johnson...
One reparations group in Portland, Oregon, is working to redistribute wealth and enable Black residents to own homes. Nayanika Guha January 10, 2024 Read the full article here Truthout
What happens when subsistence farming communities are forced to be cogs in the giant wheels of industrial agriculture? The results are land dispossession, racial inequity, and the loss of human and environmental health. Sonali...
“Almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least. And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that.” Jake Johnson January...
Calf Creek Recreation Area is one of the crown jewels of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. Its tall waterfalls deep in a canyon of cream sandstone feed emerald pools in a...
On Everest and elsewhere, the rich are creating waste. Sam Pizzigati January 3, 2024 Read the full article here Nation of Change