A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then...

Neoliberalism is Killing the Poor Rob Urie October 15, 2023 Read the full article here Counter Punch

How the biggest banks are using community bankers to front for the self-interest of Wall Street in trying to weaken the rules Robert Kuttner October 12, 2023 Read the full article here The American...

Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman talks about how to fight back against the far right’s movement to undermine public education. Glenn Daigon October 5, 2023 Read the full article here The Progressive

We cannot fix the maternal mortality problem without fixing the human rights problem at its core. Dr. Karen Scott and Indra Lusero October 4, 2023 Read the full article here Ms. Magazine

Knowing that Restoring Our Community Coalition has changed its long-standing position from advocating for removal of the NYS Route 33 (Kensington Expressway) and parkway restoration to supporting the proposed tunnel, I was surprised to...

Indigenous health has suffered from historic and intergenerational trauma which has been exacerbated by racism, disenfranchisement, detrimental data gaps and limitations in health research leading to inaccuracies in data collection, analysis and reported health...

On today’s episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Leif, a trans activist in Northern Ohio who is currently facing assault charges after defending children and their parents from violent neo-Nazis and Proud Boys in...

It doesn’t necessarily buy happiness, but both personal experience and academic research suggest that when people have more money, they’re more likely to lead a pleasant life. Charles R. Davis October 5, 2023 Read...