This is part two of our series with Palestinian solidarity activists from Malaysia. Dr. Fauziah Hasan and Azra Banu of the Asia Pacific Women’s Coalition for Al Quds and Palestine discuss the importan...

A ProPublica analysis found that the spike in deaths has elicited almost no public health response.

The ruling is one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration's use of “energy emergency” powers.

Unions decried the firing of nearly 100 workers, which they said will leave major gaps in coverage in many regions.

“We have started on a great big national fight with the union movement at stake!” Max Hayes, socialist newspaper editor and union leader, thundered to the assembled representatives of Cleveland, Ohio’...

“Affordability” has now been embraced even by politicians who haven’t pushed a shopping cart since the Clinton administration. A record of Americans say government corruption is widespread. And even...

Courts in Gaza face frequent power outages and shortages of printing supplies. Some have only one computer.

Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator.

Starting from the late 1970s, neoliberalism’s outsourcing revolution changed the lives of millions of low-wage service workers like cleaners. Once formerly employed by municipalities, national governm...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The common octopus is a warm water species that usually lives in the tempe...

Relocation incentives have a mixed record of helping cities and towns stand out as people return to rural America.

At a press briefing on Friday, David Becker, a longtime voting rights advocate and the founder and director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a “fiercly nonpartisan” nonprofit, threw a...

It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda.

The people who grow houseplants aren't often thought of as agricultural workers, but they face many of the same hardships — especially in extreme heat.

J. Michael Luttig warned of a “catastrophic end” to the president’s “war against American democracy” next January.

Leaky aqueducts and mega-projects for the wealthy exacerbate a water crisis in the US island territory Dhara Rivera de Jesús keeps at least 30 large water containers in her home at all times. After mo...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, has launched an investigation into OpenAI following revelations that the company’s AI agents bre...

A coalition of 45 faith, peace, labor, health, and political organizations is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee Ranking Members Gregory Meeks and Jim McGovern to immediat...

In 1985, when I was four months old, my family moved from Kiruna to Luleå, a city in northern Sweden. My father had found a job with the Swedish State Railways, and we were given a firsthand rental co...

September 11, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has not adequately addressed climate-related risks of pests and disease for the forestry and agriculture sectors, according to a recent a...

Nearly 6 in 10 Democrats said they back the socialist group.

“This is what has become the norm in our politics,” one Democratic candidate said in reaction to the GOP event.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has described a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries.

Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.4% in August and are up 3.4% over the past year. Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3% in August alone. Gas prices reached...

Americans strongly oppose data centers in their communities. The federal government wants to make them easier to build.

“The specter of armed officers at polling places threatens the freedom of this upcoming election,” the lawsuit says.

The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.

A top economist estimated that Trump’s Iran war has already cost the average American household an extra $1,650.

It’s hard getting normal people to care about the politics of the film industry. Our demands always have to be hitched to some other kind of politics. California Senator Adam Schiff recently tried nat...

The survey found a significant spike in the number of faculty worried about physical threats to their safety.

At 3:55 a.m. on June 25, a flicker of cellular service allowed Carlos to send word to the outside world from the rubble of his home in La Guaira that he and his family had survived the twin earthquake...

This article was originally published by the Daily Yonder on September 11, 2012. Every year, as Congress returns from its August recess, National Farmers Union holds what’s called the “Fall Fly In.”...

Union flight attendants are mourning lost co-workers on the 25-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In Chicago today, they’re joining with Transportation Security Officers to defend airport s...

It took less than an hour. No sooner had it become clear, this Sunday, that the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) was by far the strongest party in Saxony-Anhalt than Elon Musk offered his on X. The...

Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Gowayed writes that "the hate feels louder than it has ever been, more entitled and more brazen. I’m terrified of what the coming decades will bring."

National Nurses United is expanding its campaign against Palantir in a global week of action starting on September 28.

What does it mean to “Never Forget,” as we’re often asked to do when it comes to the September 11 attacks that killed nearly three thousand people? After all, few people who witnessed the crime in rea...

The September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, as the saying goes, “changed everything.” After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the global American empire, created in the 1940...

The post Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality. appeared first on ProPublica.

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true. The post Osama Bin Laden Won appeared first on The Intercept.

A funny thing happened on the way to changing the clocks: Farmers got blamed for Daylight Saving Time (DST).  “Not only is that not true, but it is 100% not true. It is as far from true as one could g...

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear conversations about the real-world effects of AI slop, indigenous buffalo harvesting, and the fate of small-town movie theaters. The post Yonder Radio: Buffalo harvesti...

The post EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells appeared first on ProPublica.

To Trump’s great frustration, he has largely been denied the vengeance he sought in Iran. Heedless of warnings that the country could retaliate against American allies in the region – many of which ho...

What is most puzzling is the refusal by mainstream feminists—some of whom I otherwise admire—to call Steinem out for the CIA-funded counter-insurgency work she directed between 1958 and 1962, which he...

Was there ever a better time to be the only Washington insider? Free money (in case you are in need of a bomb shelter or a triumphal arch), free women (apparently for $45,000 a year Natalie will run a...

Twenty-five years after 9/11, one has to ask: has the nightmare ever really ended? For a quarter-century, Americans have been governed by fear: fear of terrorists and foreign enemies, fear of domestic...

How angry America gets when it attacks people and those people resist! –Osama bin Laden, December 1998 How can they hope to be blessed with security while they are dishing out destruction, devastation...

9–11 began for me with the phone ringing off the hook. I stumbled to the phone and listened to my voicemail. It was my mother calling. “Joey, something terrible has happened. Turn on the TV.” My mothe...

Social scientists often see the individual as a product of society. But never, never underestimate the impact of personality on society. Or at least, some personalities. The only other personality in...

Christie Whitman testifies before the House Judiciary Committee – June 25, 2007. Photo by Bill Wolfe. Lying under the guise of issuing a non-apology apology after thousands of people died because of y...

Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun. Just hours after the mil...

Going to the pharmacy is always full of anxiety. It is not a pleasure to pick up medicines to cure some health problems. It has now become easier for me to go to my local pharmacy since my wife and I...

I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, I tell myself. Mine is a healthy immune response to the malignancy that is this monstrous man. But I do tend to boil over with frothing resentment. This...

“Thwaites demise is inevitable” (Inside Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier, PBS, August 19th, 2026). Aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon: “This is Thwaites, a glacier on the edge of Earth, teetering o...

I read this Substack column last week comparing the timing of subprime resets in 2006-08 to the payments that the AI companies will soon have to make for data centers as they open. (Sorry, I would cre...

The complaint alleges that there is a “legitimate question” whether Trump is paying staffers for their loyalty.

At a speech at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas yesterday, Donald Trump promised,“if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000.” Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen...

The First Circuit Court of Appeals today kept in place through the Nov. 3 election a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a new rule that would si...

A very old joke imagines two elderly Jewish men sitting on a park bench. The first reads the local Yiddish-language newspaper. The second reads an antisemitic, pro-fascist paper. After a few minutes,...

As Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran, historian Jeremy Varon discusses what we can learn from the movement that turned the tide against the Iraq War.

Although the University of Chicago bears “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched” as its official motto, a different slogan entirely has attained much wider fame. Thanks t...

Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.

Brits dislike intellectuals. But for much of the last century and the beginning of this one, John Berger proved himself a notable exception. Berger first achieved cult status during the 1970s thanks t...

A few months ago, my partner and I met a liberal, fortysomething history professor who told us that for his next book he’d been reading up on late-1990s alter-globalization movements. As the millenniu...

In October 1996, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued an order encouraging basketball in schools and government organs. The following January, he published a treatise called “We Must Put Efforts to...

On September 8, 2025, a video shot in Columbia University’s bookstore went viral on X. Over the elegant sounds of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring,” it cut between shots of available titles, all of them pres...

The 2026 World Cup was supposed to provide relief from the tournament’s bedevilment by autocratic regimes, following the outrage that greeted FIFA’s selection of Russia for 2018 host and Qatar for 202...

The post Empty Seat: U.S. Absent as Western Powers Meet on Wartime Protections for Civilians appeared first on ProPublica.

Apologies to those who just can't or won't hear more of it, but the foul mad child-king is running notably rampant, and the historic record beckons. The bilge somehow keeps surging, from a weekend del...

The retailer launches the service four years after making its first foray into internet shopping.

The post 25 Years After 9/11, Questions About the FBI’s Pursuit of Saudi Suspects in the Case Have Only Grown appeared first on ProPublica.

Researchers with Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), affiliated with Parkland Health, looked at areas in Texas with higher vulnerabilities for chronic illnesses and saw whether access to f...

A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech. The post Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Sti...

Apple showed off at an event the first major design change to the iPhone in almost 20 years.

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As a cattle rancher on a sixth-generation Kansas farm, I see this aisle differently than most. I see high prices, but I know I’m not to blame. Americans are being told repeatedly that the country has...

The post U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds appeared first on ProPublica.

The TUC says a bank surcharge should be reversed - and estimates it would raise £9bn over four years.

Young voters interrupted the United States Postal Service Board of Governors closed door meeting to request the Governors reject the administration’s plan to intercede in mail-in ballot efforts. They...

Responding to the announcement by Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK that they plan to restrict trade with illegal Israeli settlemen...

A federal appeals court today will again hear a lawsuit designed to restrict abortion access nationwide by banning mail and pharmacy dispensing of mifepristone, a safe and effective medication used in...

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who previously worked for OpenAI, has resigned from the AI industry, warning that leading AI companies are racing to create increasingly powerful AI systems without a...

September 9, 2026 – In collaboration with a group of nonprofits, cities, and states, four unions representing government workers filed a new lawsuit Tuesday to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 202...

Twenty-five years ago, in the ashes of the September 11th attacks, the United States launched what it called the "Global War on Terror." While the country was afraid and vulnerable, neoconservatives i...

The post Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. appeared first on ProPublica.

Building data centers is broadly unpopular across the political spectrum, but so far, banning new development is a mostly metropolitan area phenomenon. While more data centers are located in metropoli...

“Let’s go to La Junta, Colorado, for their Tarantula Fest!” is what no sane person should exclaim. But I did because I’m terrified of spiders. I don’t want to be, but I am. I’d hoped that the inspirin...

The post I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life. appeared first on ProPublica.

Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.

Since then, I’ve turned my focus to how this theme is playing out in the present day, looking into how conventional farming continues to erode the health of the soil that grows our food. Yet in visiti...

Key thinkers suggest other radical measures in Compass report such as free personal social care and abolishing Lords Andy Burnham should tackle inequality in the UK by introducing a wealth tax, univer...

President Donald Trump and his recently appointed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Aitkins are proposing to rescind the pay-to-play rule. The rule prohibits investment advisers and t...

The post The Struggle Against Industrial Expansion in Cancer Alley appeared first on Inequality.org.

A new comic set on Parallel Earth by Tom Tomorrow.

Center for International Policy Executive Vice President Matt Duss issued the following statement in response to new measures announced by the United Kingdom and other US allies in response to Israeli...

Host Maximillian Alvarez sits down with a panel of community members from Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and East Palestine, Ohio to discuss life inside a sacrifice zone.

In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted fr...

After a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and record-breaking temperatures, new polling has revealed the UK public want Burnham’s government to take strong climate action to protect people in schools and...

An increase in civilian deaths and injuries caused by cluster munitions should trigger united action among the 124 countries that are members of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Human Rights Watch...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice-monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bot...

The post This State Is Spending More on Lethal Injections. A Law Tries to Keep the Details Secret. appeared first on ProPublica.

Two hours later, Richman was working at a farmers’ market that she had helped establish with the nonprofit Sustainable Food Center. As she watched families standing in line to buy fresh peaches and to...

Could migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity?

In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of...

A legislative setback for a manufacturing and housing proposal shows how hard it remains to build in the largest state — and why a backlash against billionaires could make it even harder.

The post We Need a Bigger, More Skilled Movement to Face What’s Coming appeared first on Inequality.org.

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On August 25, the Trump administration Commerce Department finally approved Illinois’s spending plan under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Illinois was the last straggler...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you se...

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear about the American cowboys that compete at the World Nomad Games in Central Asia, and the women who have helped develop recreation economies in the West. The post Yond...

The post Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year. appeared first on ProPublica.

In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens operations, and a younger generation chooses not to...

Lori Chavez-DeRemer spent Labor Department funds on personal travel and tolerated harassment in the agency, its inspector general found.

September 3, 2026 – The Department of Justice (DOJ) is expanding an investigation into beef prices as part of the administration’s latest push to address persistently high costs. On Tuesday, the agenc...

A version of this article first appeared on Allen Stanton’s Substack, Reclaiming Rural. My most famous piece of writing is a controversial essay entitled, “Why I Hate Wendell Berry.” It’s obvious why...

A round-up of this month's signs of late stage capitalism and the horrors we're living through.

2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight.

The post The New Red Scare Is a Desperate Smoke Screen appeared first on Inequality.org.

Marc Rowan, a Trump appointee overseeing Gaza’s redevelopment, has given $1.5 million to AIPAC’s super PAC this cycle. The post “Board of Peace” Billionaire Backs AIPAC Fund Targeting Pro-Palestine Ca...

Across the country, local governments are facing budget season with an impossible math problem. As federal funding shrinks and safety-net programs face sweeping cuts from the “One Big Beautiful Bill A...

The Grammy winner’s fourth record, "The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales," spins a juicy revenge fable out of country, hip-hop, and Americana influences. The post Shaboozey Goes West in His New...

The post These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained appeared first on ProPublica.

On a large scale, this caution has manifested in lettuce and produce sales plummeting, with farms in California’s Salinas Valley abandoning crops and cutting staff, according to the New York Times. Sa...

The post Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections appeared first on ProPublica.

Los trabajadores de la salud quienes están luchando por un contrato sindical en Vermont han acudido a la mesa de negociaciones no solo con sus propias demandas de plantillas suficientes y salarios jus...

Health care workers fighting for a contract in Vermont have come to the table with not only their own demands for safe staffing and fair pay, but also a more unusual demand—one made in solidarity with...

In June, Mike and Gillian Goodrich gifted $10 million to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine toward a program to train primary care physicians in rural commun...

This story was originally published by Public Health Watch. Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evi...

“It is the twilight of a day in the height of summer. The day has been hot and long and hard, and he is tired; his shirt and the band of his hat are still wet with sweat. He can feel the sweat drying...

The United States now appears on a watchlist alongside countries like Zimbabwe and the Philippines.

Berry’s The Unsettling of America, published in 1977, is considered a conservationist’s manifesto for an alternative to the industrial, commoditized farming that was rapidly scaling up at the time. He...

Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when she and hundreds of her co-workers arrived at work on August 13, they found the plant close...

The post Inside New Mexico’s Oil and Gas ‘Sacrifice Zone’: The Fight to Protect Greater Chaco appeared first on Inequality.org.

An investigation into the everyday violence of prison strip searches, which incarcerated women say are a tool of abuse.

U.S. military veterans are drilled by their commanders to obey their superior officers. Many still believe it is their duty to support the commander-in-chief even after their tour of duty. But at a...

Over time, the role of urban farms has evolved as well, becoming a strategy for cultural survival, food security, and food sovereignty. Increasingly, city farms have also offered pockets of climate re...

Workers around the country experienced brutal heat this summer, with July the hottest month on record. It’s creating a safety crisis on the job, as workers report severe nausea, dizziness, exhaustion,...

“We did our due diligence to figure out where this money was going, and what we found is that it’s all going to infrastructure and probably not going to be spent for another two or three years,” Brown...

August 28, 2026 – A federal judge in California this week struck down drastic cuts to the minimum wage paid to farmworkers on H-2A guestworker visas, put in place by the Trump administration last year...

Dolly Parton’s song, “9 to 5,” has endured as a beloved anthem for nearly half a century. What many people don’t know is that the direct inspiration for the song—and the hit movie—was the 9 to 5 work...

Your future is bright! Especially if you're willing to pay a monthly subscription to the sun.

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall. Seeking to pressure Starbucks to finally sign a contract with its 12,000 unionized baristas, Starbucks Workers United announced a boycott of the cha...

August 27, 2026 Update: On Thursday, Canadian officials announced they are reversing course and exempting U.S. fish and seafood products from the tariffs. August 27, 2026 – Canada imposed new tariffs...

The development of artificial intelligence technology is set to disrupt virtually every industry, every profession and every employment sector.

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Kukui Maunakea-Forth is the co-founder and executive director of Ma‘o Organic Farms, in the Lualualei Valley, Oahu, Hawai’i. Gary Maunakea-Forth is the co-founder and director of ’āina development at...

Photograph by Kapulei Flores (Kanaka Maoli) I come from a family of musicians, storytellers, and cultural practitioners. My grandmother, Winona Kapua Ilohia Manonokalani Desha Beamer, was the eldest m...

Democratic socialists are on the ballot from now until November. If they win their elections, the socialist movement wins a new path forward.

To flip a key Michigan seat, the insurgent candidate is campaigning on housing, healthcare and opposition to data centers.

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

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Carol Taylor and Howard Williamson respond to Katriona O’Sullivan’s article on the grinding reality of living in poverty Reading Katriona O’Sullivan’s article (Can anyone be too poor to buy a toothbru...

[[“Low-Wage 100 Firms with the Largest Number of Employees on Public Assistance”,”#colspan#”,”#colspan#”,”#colspan#”],[“”,”Employees enrolled in Medicaid in 6 states”,”Employees receiving SNAP benefit...

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New York mayor Zohran Mamdani shows Britain’s Andy Burnham that confronting billionaires need not mean the end of cooperation with Donald Trump In November, Californians will vote on a one-off 5% levy...

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.