The Left Behind
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...
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CRIME SCENE DNA DIDN’T MATCH MARCELLUS WILLIAMS. MISSOURI MAY FAST-TRACK HIS EXECUTION ANYWAY.
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
‘This is not a parody’: Florida school district bans dictionaries under DeSantis law
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...
Grassroots Groups Are Doing Small-Scale Reparations in Absence of Federal Action
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
Soil As a Source of Prosperity
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...
In 41 US States, Richest 1% Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Everyone Else
“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...
BLM, Get Your Hands Off Calf Creek Falls
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...
In our deeply unequal world, the garbage rises ever higher
On Everest and elsewhere, the rich are creating waste. Sam Pizzigati January 3, 2024 Read the full article here Nation of Change
The Dubious, Racially Charged Flood Project Biden Is Resurrecting in Mississippi
Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners. Nick Schwellenbach January 5, 2024 Read the full article here The New...
WE ARE A NATION
When I was a child, my grandmother, Maggie, always called the United States (US), the ‘enemy.’ She was the one who taught me who I was as Oglala Tituwan Oceti Sakowin (AKA Sioux), and...