The company’s public stock debut is set to be one of the most valuable in history, and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.

Administrators at St. John’s University abruptly canceled labor negotiations, pushing faculty to scale up organizing.

“The only reason you would hit this target is to try to limit medicine production in Iran,” one expert said.

Industrial robotics company, FANUC, was the only Japanese company named in the Albanese report on Israel’s “economy of genocide.” This week on CounterPunch Radio, we speak with members of BDS Japan Bu...

April 1, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has yet to initiate the 2025 application and payment process for funds authorized by Congress to help farmers afford organic certification. Th...

The clinics that control methadone are driving people out of treatment and back to a toxic supply of street drugs.

After oral arguments on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appears likely to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to newborns without a citizen or lawful perma...

In some states, abortion bans have definitively led to an exodus of OB-GYNs and maternal fetal medicine specialists.

The court was arguing his executive order on birthright citizenship.

Workers are protesting low wages, lack of personal protective gear, and discrimination against immigrant employees.

Somewhere, paid for with your tax dollars, are $12,540 worth of three-tiered fruit basket stands. It’s a symptom of a much larger problem. Buried in the way Congress funds the government is a “use it...

The Trump administration has requested a record-shattering $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget and $200 billion for the war.

If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.

Experts and state election officials said the executive order will quickly draw legal challenges.

The AFL-CIO is calling on private equity firm Apollo — whose CEO has come under fire for ties to Jeffrey Epstein — to investigate growing reports of labor abuses at its subsidiaries, including union b...

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The court’s “reckless decision means more American kids will suffer,” said the president of Human Rights Campaign.

Historian Sven Beckert on where the capitalist system came from, what keeps it alive, and what it would take to bring it down. “Everything that has a beginning also has an end.” Harvard historian Sven...

Many businesses have said they will have to pass higher wage costs onto customers.

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Mallory McMorrow, who is running against Medicare for All champion Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate, recently went viral presenting herself as a populist crusader against surveillance pricing. Her record...

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump signed a new executive order that attempts to stop voting by mail. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: “This ex...

Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present. Still from Palestine 36. (Wate...

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bradley P. Clawson spent more than three decades handling highly radioactive...

Last week, Mother Jones published firsthand accounts of children and parents detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the nation’s only family detention center. The stories, which came fr...

Forty-one years after the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the right of every refugee in the country to fundamental justice, Canada’s federal government is denying certain classes of refugees the righ...

For some rural Texans, the closest link to a doctor may now be the local library. Across the state, libraries are helping residents, particularly older adults, access telehealth appointments and digit...

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In Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israeli militaries are bombing dense residential blocks, destroying civilian infrastructure, slaughtering children, and assassinating health workers. If it sounds famil...

The post The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules appeared first on ProPublica.

Photographs by Joseph Bui He carefully rolls the cuff of his jeans to his knee and raises his foot so she can see it more clearly. Through a medical student translating her English to Vietnamese, Díaz...

As one who has devoted more than fifty years of his life to international law and human rights, I am appalled at the inaction of States.  One is tempted to think that international law no longer exist...

I’m writing this piece well into President Donald Trump’s new war with Iran, which, with the help of Israel, has already killed more than 2,000 civilians, including 175 schoolgirls and staff; displace...

Modern economies depend on a range of essential inputs that are not fully priced or exchanged in markets. These include ecosystem functions—such as clean air, climate regulation, and biodiversity—as w...

”Native Americans will tenaciously defend the legal, political and cultural boundaries of their sovereignty using every means available to American citizens: voting, protesting, petitioning, lobbying,...

How long will Gulf States bleed for war on Iran that the United States and Israel are waging? That’s a question a recent Newsweek article posed. According to the reporting, specialists from all six Gu...

The story of the so-called “Sarajevo Safari” – the alleged arrival of wealthy foreign individuals to positions around the besieged city during the Bosnian War (1992–1995), in order to shoot at civilia...

After being out of fashion since the beatnik-hippie era of the 1950s through early ‘70s, beards, mustaches and the perpetual 5 o’clock shadow are back.  Trumpsters — including Donald Jr., Sec. of Comm...

Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists.  Attacks on gas fields, oil refineries and petrochemical plant...

A Hopeless US Proposal Donald Trump thinks a 15-point plan will end the war with Iran. Seems like a hope and a prayer. Predictably, Iran rejected it out of hand and has put forward its own plan, which...

The New York Times had an interesting piece on the implications of Ozempic becoming available as a generic in India, China, and several other countries. The drop in price could eventually be close to...

The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical sphere. What remains supportive of the war is limi...

I filled my car tank this week and paid 40% more than I did just a month ago. That isn’t just an economic abstraction, but another indirect Israeli “surcharge” on American consumers. Meanwhile, Donald...

TMZ founder Harvey Levin asked the public to send in their snapshots and help show lawmakers "how fed up the American people are."

A string of bill increases have taken effect but minimum wage and benefit rises will help some to pay them.

Iran's strikes on Gulf states have been especially hard for migrants who have long supported these economies to lift their families back home from poverty.

The judge said Penn does not have to disclose any worker’s affiliation with a Jewish-related organization.

The Rutherford County Library Board voted Monday evening to fire library system director Luanne James for refusing to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children’s to the adult section.

Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just fo...

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, denying birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants and other parents who are not permanent...

"The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!” wrote U.S. District Judge Richard Leon.

March 31, 2026 — The Trump administration is pushing hospitals to align patient meals with the latest Dietary Guidelines by phasing out ultra-processed food and high-sugar foods in favor of fruits, ve...

How America’s history with Iran has already shaped ordinary lives

Single mothers are among the hardest hit as rising prices spurred by the Iran war exacerbate the affordability crisis.

The GOP is reportedly considering kicking hundreds of thousands more off Medicaid to fund Trump's illegal war on Iran.

Discriminatory Israeli military courts, which have a 99 percent conviction rate, can now mandate death by hanging.

Washington State just enacted a historic "millionaire tax"—and as organizers set their sights on state legislatures, more could soon follow suit.

Sexual abuse like the harm enacted by Cesar Chavez plagues movements because it plagues our world — both must change.

The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.

Eight million people showed up at last weekend’s No Kings protests. Donald Trump’s response? Release footage of a skyscraper bearing his name, a golden statue of himself, and a throne room with paid p...

Pushed by Tehran and domestic pressure, Yemen’s Houthis attacked Israel and joined the regional conflict. But they remain wary of reigniting their costly war with Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have entere...

For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security has been met by a multi-faceted gr...

Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover...

Despite corporate and elite attempts to wrest football from ordinary people, it remains a site of struggle for community and belonging amid capitalist alienation. The upcoming World Cup will showcase...

In the parking lot outside of City Hall, I Googled two questions: what’s a referendum and what’s a PAC? Digging for a pen under my car seat, I filled out the paperwork to form a political action commi...

The post Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration appeared first on ProPublica.

Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum.

Capitalism is only too happy to accommodate and absorb cultural challenges that don’t alter its foundations. Without economic transformations, the gains of identity-based politics are narrow — and rev...

German imperialism was responsible for the first genocide of the 20th century in its Namibian colony. The country’s socialist movement spoke out vehemently against the atrocities, offering solidarity...

Since 2022, this truck, the People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market, has sold affordable fresh fruits and vegetables to local residents, helping many stretch their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro...

In a perhaps unprecedented dark time for America and the world, let us take solace in our indomitable Dear Stable Genius, who remains unwaveringly focused on taking care of shiny business: Gold social...

Zionism’s common agenda is for a majority Jewish state in what was and is Palestinian land. From its beginnings, Israel has been a Zionist project, and Zionism was and continues to be, whether libera...

I traveled to Cuba this month. As a Cuban American, that sentence carries the weight of longing born of an estrangement from my roots. For much of my life, Cuba existed as a distant story, a place I k...

The Employment Policies Institute is tied to a PR firm that represents food and restaurant industry interests.

Today, The Hill reported that Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledged that many of his Democratic colleagues plan to flip their votes against renewing...

March 30, 2026 – Amid farm economy struggles and rising gas prices, President Donald Trump announced on Friday the release of an updated biofuel policy and temporary boosts to ethanol sales. Speaking...

A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other...

Federal agents “denied Minnesota investigators access to key information” in the DHS shootings, the lawsuit says.

Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount...

A campaign to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement from polling places would provide a concrete, winnable demand that unions, student organizations, and immigrant and democracy defense groups could...

The No Kings rallies have evolved beyond basic anti-Trump liberalism. Their messaging is sharply antiwar, anti-oligarchy, and far more substantive than the “resistance” politics of Donald Trump’s firs...

The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according t...

One month after the start of the Iran war, new analysis from 350.org shows that over $100 billion has been siphoned from ordinary people to oil and gas companies due to soaring energy prices. In addit...

A shipping container in Fort Davis is at the center of a new experiment in bringing telehealth to an aging rural population. Perched in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, Jeff Davis County faces steep...

The post A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica.

The sweeping new law enshrines farmers' use of gas-powered equipment and weakens protections for conservation lands, locking the state's climate-battered ag sector into fossil fuel dependence.

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. Shultz slowed the truck as they passed...

A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.

Short of a full-scale invasion, it looks like Trump will need to deal with the Iranian regime. The post The Regime Survives, Trump Has to Deal, and Iranians Are the Biggest Losers appeared first on Th...

In response to Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon’s (D-PA-05) introduction of the Take Back Our Hospitals Act, which would effectively prohibit private-equity firms from owning hospi...

The symbolic resolution could force Democrats to take a stand on the millions the increasingly toxic AIPAC spends on Democratic primaries. The post DNC Resolution to Reject AIPAC Funding Puts Democrat...

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As airports reach peak chaos amidst a government shutdown and massive departures by unpaid TSA agents, the regime's evil idiots moved to resolve their new quagmire by sending in the same brutal, ill-t...

Leaders in city and state government support raising taxes on the wealthy, but Gov. Hochul and Speaker Menin are refusing to get on board. Now, grassroots groups are increasing the pressure.

Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors.

Free Speech For People today unveiled a full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling on Congress to impeach and remove Donald Trump from office, as nationwide “No Kings” protests mobilize Ame...

FOIA records obtained by Type Investigations and In These Times raise questions about evidence presented in Prairieland case.

The post An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. appeared first on ProPublica.

Most of us know someone who can be found daily (or even multiple times a day) at a rural restaurant: Retired farmers and widowers who breakfast at the place the rest of us call The House Of Knowledge....

The social media warriors have helped make AIPAC a politically toxic brand — and fueled debate over what it means to be "pro-Israel." The post How Does TrackAIPAC Actually Track AIPAC? appeared first...

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The post This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise. appeared first on ProPublica.

Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.

A 5-year drought, a failed desalination plant, and poor planning may force the city to choose between residents and the oil and gas industry.

A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.

The post Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable appeared first on ProPublica.

President Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite. Electricity prices rose nearly 7% last year, with the typical household paying $1...

The post Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says appeared first on ProPublica.

March 25, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ended a Biden-era program designed to give the next generation of farmers a leg up, terminating $300 million in contracts. Created with I...

“Grief does not go anywhere, but instead takes up residence within us.”

On Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported that House Democratic leaders are not planning to hold a vote on a war powers resolution for Iran this week—despite reports that they may have enough support to ado...

From monetary costs to physical proximity, receiving health care in the rural Ozarks – and beyond – can be challenging.  In southwest Missouri, Dr. John Lorette explained to me how he is working to ma...

The post New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending appeared first on ProPublica.

Students in the course cook from-scratch meals for the entire school (K through 12), located just outside the Siletz Reservation, in central Oregon. They also run a food truck, which is named YA-TR’EE...

Today, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado held a session on “the future of Venezuela” at CERAWeek, one of the world’s largest oil and gas conferences, where she spoke in support of U.S....

The post How American Kids Have Been Collateral Damage in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown appeared first on ProPublica.

As an Iraqi, I’ve spent my life fleeing, surviving, and bearing witness to wars justified by lies. In Iran, we’re seeing yet another.

A rank-and-file-led slate of candidates is challenging O’Brien’s MAGA-happy leadership of one of the country’s biggest unions.

A new online dashboard will allow policymakers in Tennessee to move beyond superficial data and take a deep dive into why certain rural counties struggle, experts at East Tennessee State University sa...

The post He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge. appeared first on ProPublica.

Artificial intelligence could reshape work, but for now a low-hire, low-fire labor market is the main impediment for young people seeking employment.

The American apple industry is concentrated almost entirely on a handful of varieties. Just 15 apples account for roughly 90 percent of the market. In contrast, Central Asia’s thousands of wild apple...

A Celebration That Now Lives in Memory

March 23, 2026 – According to a new analysis, 144 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) county offices lost all of their conservation staff in 2025, prompting questions around who will assist farmers...

How organizers and everyday residents—now activists—are stopping ICE around the country

In the early 2000s, Lori McKiernan worked in a data center outside Denver, Colorado, for a stint during her career with United Airlines. Two decades later, she’s leading an organized effort to pause d...

The post Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids appeared first on ProPublica.

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A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. Precision farming technologies gather...

This weekend, former Marine, combat veteran, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who tragically failed to take down a treacherous sociopath, died of Parkinson’s disease at 81. In response...

In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for i...

A partnership aims to ease food insecurity in low-income areas underserved by grocery stores Dozens of newly planted fruit trees have created an oasis in a Florida “food desert” after local groups tea...

Christopher J. Waller, a Federal Reserve governor, said he would support rate cuts later this year if the labor market continued to weaken.

March 18, 2026 – As the war in Iran drives fertilizer prices higher, lawmakers and federal agencies are turning their attention toward powerful companies and potential price fixing. In a bipartisan ef...

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Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass Trump lackeys faithfully, fearfully shuffling...

March 19, 2026 — Members of Congress and state officials are working to distance celebrations, streets, and buildings from renowned farmworker union leader César Chavez, following extensive allegation...

The Western half of the United States is entering a historic heat wave that will subject millions of Americans to sweltering conditions and is forecast to break records across California, Arizona, and...

The espresso machine in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s personal office in Newport Beach, California, retails for $14,000—almost as much as the $14,674 annual wage of the coffee giant’s median worker, a...

March 19, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday proposed delaying a set of regulations that were set to change how chicken companies pay contract farmers and how they communicate...

Since the financial crisis and Great Recession of the early Obama era, a core group of community and union organizers in Minnesota had been building what they called “alignment.” January 23 was one fr...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion r...

Taken as a composite, reality shows offer a fascinating – and often unflattering – insight into our culture. Whether we’re true fans or just ritually hate-watch with our friends, the shows that captur...

Early on, she connected with staff at the Rodale Institute, the country’s most influential center for in-field organic agriculture research, based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 75 miles northwest of Phil...

Last year a network of unions and community organizations organized the largest May Day actions in U.S. history: 1,200 actions in all 50 states. This year, the stakes are even higher, and the examples...

When it comes to A.I., there’s a stark gap in ambition between business and labor. If A.I. ushers in a technological boom, corporations intend to use it to wage total war on labor. They will use effi...

The pro-Israel lobby spent millions to intervene in the Democratic primaries, but in the two most high-profile races AIPAC came up short.

New comics commenting on everyone from Kristi Noem to Trump by Bianca Xunise, Tom Tomorrow, Jen Sorensen and Brian McFadden.

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To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.

Every year around this time, Forbes publishes its global billionaire rankings like a fantasy football league table for the ultra rich. The graphics sparkle, the fortunes climb, and commentators analyz...

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Desde que más de 4.000 agentes del ICE llegaron a la ciudad de Minneapolis, el barista de Starbucks Alex Rivers ha intentado a equilibrar la rigurosa concentración que exige el trabajo–se espera que l...

Labor Notes is delighted to welcome two terrific new staff writer-organizers and three great interns as we get ready for our big conference in Chicago in June. We’re also bidding a fond farewell to a...

The 24,000-member Oregon Nurses Association has elected a slate of reform candidates to statewide leadership positions. The Caucus for Powerful Reform (CPR) won 15 out of the 21 seats it ran for, incl...

Fortunes of the country’s 22 billionaires doubled in last five years, reaching unprecedented collective wealth of $219bn Scrunched between luxury apartment buildings and a lush gated community, the ne...

Bad actors have treated equality as a zero sum game, with women falsely portrayed as ‘winning’. Feeling they have to compete, young men are lashing out Last week, results from a global survey signalle...

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Treatments continue to improve. The challenge now facing ministers is hugely unequal outcomes New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compare...

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Exclusive: Watchdog finds sharp rise in number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings and extractions Almost a third of people in England now use private dentistry, with a sharp rise in the n...

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Since more than 4,000 ICE agents descended on the city of Minneapolis, Starbucks barista Alex Rivers has tried to balance the exacting focus the job requires—baristas are expected to write on every cu...

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Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the wo...

Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.

Employers steal an estimated $50 billion per year from workers through wage theft — more than all property crimes in America combined. Yet it's workers, not executives, who face consequences.

100 million Americans carry medical debt while health insurance company CEOs take home tens of millions per year. The system isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed for the people at the top.

Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.

A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.

ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.