Recent weeks saw two terrible tragedies at sea. In one, five explorers died when the Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic. In the other, over 600 refugees—most of them women and children—drowned in the Mediterranean...
Florida is another step closer to paving its roads with phosphogypsum — a radioactive waste material from the fertilizer industry — after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill into law Thursday. Bill Chappell...
Young farmers should be our beacon of hope to avoid another Dust Bowl, capture carbon, and feed our population. But there’s a huge caveat: We have set them up to fail Katie Brimm June...
A battle is raging in the woods outside Atlanta. At stake are 85 acres of the South River Forest (Weelaunee Forest by its Muscogee name) where city officials and corporate bigwigs want to build...
Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Michael...
“One girl said to me, ‘I would hit you, but that’s called animal abuse,’” Gavin, an Oregon 4th grader, said at a city council meeting after a racist incident. Laura Bassett June 16, 2023...
These patterns represent a litany of violations of the public’s constitutional rights, the report finds Sharon Zhang, June 16, 2023 Read the full article here Salon
Daniel Penny has now been indicted in connection with the tragic killing, which came in a climate of fear mongering and New York City’s long failure to support people experiencing homelessness. Nicole Narea and...
Five House seats may well shift to Democrats in the wake of “Allen v. Milligan.” Marjorie Cohn June 13, 2023 Read the full article here Truthdig
Overloaded with debt, with maintenance and repairs cut back to the bone, tenants are being bled dry to make millions for speculators—with a crucial assist from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Eileen Markey...