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
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...
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...
The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations. Sonali Kolhatkar December...
As we prepare to usher in 2024, the outlook on Alabama’s administration of the death penalty holds many terrible knowns, and an even greater number of grim unknowns. Stephen Cooper December 29, 2023 Read...
Capitalism is killing us. That’s the unequivocal message of a new book, Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It by Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar. The authors...