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Donald Trump rode to reelection on a campaign packed with racist rhetoric that promised mass deportations of immigrants. So far, Trump has...
A wave of anger is cresting at post offices across the country. Letter carriers are looking at the big raises that other union members have won —...
Ben & Jerry’s has filed a lawsuit against Unilever, claiming its parent company “threatened to dismantle its board and sue its members” if the...
For many of us, the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s decisive electoral victory has been a time of deep despair and mourning. There has been...
It’s been a strange month for transgender political activists in the U.S., as the nation has witnessed a presidential election result with...
This article originally appeared in Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It took Samoan activist Tunaimati’a Jacob Netzler three...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) is reiterating her call for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign after the Biden administration said there...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen billionaire North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a close ally of the fossil fuel...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision on Wednesday barring employers from requiring workers to attend meetings that are...
In the acclaimed new book Gaza Faces History, historian Enzo Traverso challenges Western attitudes toward Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza by...
On Election Day, voters made Missouri the first state with a total abortion ban after Roe v. Wade to pass a constitutional amendment recognizing...
On Wednesday, Ohio’s legislature became the first in the country to pass an anti-transgender law post-2024 election. The bill, SB104, originally...
Amid the onslaught of dismal news on Election Day, Californians passed a “tough-on-crime” ballot initiative that will lengthen sentences for...
On Thursday, president-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted anti-vaccination crusader who frequently...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is backing a bid by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) to block a massive weapons transfer to Israel by the...
What will it mean to resist fascism under a second Trump administration? During Trump’s first term, we saw mass marches, blockade actions, and...
This November, a few months after being naturalized as a U.S. citizen, Eloy Tupayachi Salas voted in a U.S. presidential election for the first...
A Virginia-based defense contractor has been ordered to pay $42 million to three torture victims held at Abu Ghraib prison during the early years...
The following piece is an excerpt from the forthcoming anthology, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, which I edited in...
Following the abrupt resignation of Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz from the U.S. House of Representatives — shortly after he was nominated by...
In a move that could understandably be mistaken as one of the site’s famous headlines, the satirical “news” outlet The Onion has purchased the...
A UN special committee has found that Israel’s tactics of starvation and mass civilian slaughter in Gaza are “consistent with genocide,” in one...
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated far-right Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general. The selection of Gaetz, a...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday his intention to bring a floor vote on resolutions aimed at blocking a series of proposed arms sales...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is no fan of...
For decades, making progress on global climate action has felt like trying to tunnel through a mountain with only a spoon and some elbow grease....
After mounting his comeback win against Kamala Harris, Donald Trump has already announced a slew of administration appointments. Compared to other...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, a megadonor to the Republican’s campaign, and a...
Legislation that would have handed President-elect Donald Trump sweeping power to investigate and shutter news outlets, government watchdogs,...
Image Credit: Aziz Karimov / Getty Images The U.N. climate summit known as COP29 is underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, where negotiators are trying to...
Environmental defenders are raising alarm over Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, former New York Congressmember...
Govs. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill. and Jared Polis, D-Colo., have formed a coalition of fellow state-level executives to resist “increasing threats of...
The U.S. saw a dramatic increase in demand for reproductive health medications following the reelection of Donald Trump last week, with many...
Donald Trump is picking a number of pro-Israel voices to join his incoming cabinet. His selections, some of which have officially been made and...
In journalism circles, we often speak about our work in abstract ideals. Transparency. Accountability. Democracy. Truth. All of these ideals are...
“The hostility has always been there,” Paul told me. “But I feel like it truly began to ramp up like 2020.” A 16-year-old student at a large...
When Trump was elected in 2016, the ACLU’s website featured a photo of him and the words “We’ll See You in Court.” They also rolled out an...
Co-published with Oregon Public Broadcasting . This article was originally published at ProPublica . ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Incoming President Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term has sent private prison stocks soaring....
Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but Donald Trump has been...
Several sources have indicated that President-elect Donald Trump will appoint key cabinet and advisory picks with vicious anti-immigrant views for...
A federal judge has blocked a state law in Louisiana that aimed to require that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in classrooms,...
Climate campaigners didn’t sugarcoat their reactions to a Dutch court decision on Tuesday that overturned a landmark 2021 ruling ordering the oil...
As the deadline set by the Biden administration last month for Israel to step up aid deliveries to Gaza passed on Tuesday, human rights groups...