The summer of 2020 was the largest protest movement for civil rights and racial justice in a generation. As Americans flooded the streets demanding justice and accountability for police brutality, police departments responded with force. By October 2020, five months...
President Trump barely mentioned African Americans in his recent State of the Union address. The one exception was when he boasted that the unemployment rates for blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans “have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.” … Read...
Long after Donald Trump ceases to be President, the newly renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement may be harming the environment. As Ben Beachy of the Sierra Club describes it, the new agreement “will encourage further outsourcing of pollution and jobs,...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the TPP, has risen from the dead. In one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump pulled out of the massive trade pact, which linked countries from Australia to Japan, Mexico to Vietnam. The TPP faced a...
Former President Barack Obama once articulated his vision of foreign policy as not doing “stupid shit.” By this he meant not putting boots on the ground in long-term, unwinnable wars. What this vision didn’t include was ending those wars or pursuing a progressive...
The collapse of a tunnel at the massive nuclear waste dump at Hanford, Washington, 200 miles east of Seattle, has sent shock waves through a nuclear power industry already in the process of a global collapse. Hundreds of workers were told to “take cover,”...