Conservative politicians are obsessed with the idea that government aid is making Americans lazy, which is why they keep trying to impose work requirements on programs such as Medicaid and food stamps despite overwhelming...
Fifteen years ago Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, Capital & Main and ProPublica found some hotels may be violating that...
22 Chicago police stations are housing hundreds of recently arrived people. One officer is accused of impregnating a teenage immigrant by rape. Caitlin Cruz July 7, 2023 Read the full article here Jezebel
Student activists led the fight for affirmative action decades ago. Let’s continue their struggle for racial equity. Kwolanne Felix July 7, 2023 Read the full article here Truthout
It has been one year since Roderick Brooks was killed by a deputy in Texas, but his family still has no answers. Phillip Jackson July 7, 2023 Read the full article here Huff Post
The recent success of right-wing boycotts against brands like Target and Bud Light proves yet again that profit-driven corporate actors are never going to be effective guardians of inclusion and human rights. Luke Savage...
Tuesday was not a good night for left-leaning, progressive Democrats – India Walton, Matt Dearing, Eve Shippens and Kathryn Franco all lost – and lost big. Charlie Specht July 3, 2023 Read the full article here...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six...
Recent research conducted by Reuters has shed light on the genealogies of America’s political elite, revealing that a significant portion of members of Congress, living presidents, Supreme Court justices, and governors are direct descendants...
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...