Activist are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.
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From elders struggling with high electric bills to lost economic development opportunities, Trump’s gutting of Solar for All is felt by residents of northern Plains reservations.
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening anima...
Trades Union Congress says women have worked a month and a half for nothing this year and legislation is needed
Women in the UK will not be paid the same as men until 2056 at the current rate of progr...
Costa Rica’s surge in violent crime should have been a liability for President Rodrigo Chaves’s right-wing party. Instead, his handpicked successor, Laura Fernández, won resoundingly by promising law-...
ICE’s arrest and detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota last month sparked national outrage. The episode was just one among many instances of federal immigration agents abducting yo...
In Sweden today, maternal activism is uniting around a politics of collective care, turning private burdens into claims about public obligation and democratic rights.
Sweden’s motherhood movements co...
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The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New York Times. All told, the strikes by US forces have...
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world,...
New York City nurses reached deals and ended their strikes at two hospitals last week. But at NewYork-Presbyterian, New York’s richest hospital, 4,200 nurses are still striking after overwhelmingly re...
It’s good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldn’t be allowed to pretend it never happened. Justice would require a wave of impeachments, criminal cha...
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants to send Cuba some desperately needed oil. Donald Trump sent the US Navy into the Caribbean to make sure that doesn’t happen.
The invasion of Venezuela has...
Thanks to AI, white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable.
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling ev...
The largest and longest nurses strike in the city’s history will continue at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867.
February 13, 2025 – Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee released a draft farm bill package today, as farmers across the country continue to call for overdue investments. The text of the bil...
The first time I noticed it was last month, when he asked for a hug. And not just any hug. “I could use a HUGE MAGA hug!” he wrote. “I love you. Do you STILL love me?” The love note was adorned with l...
On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported that President Donald Trump has established an advisory commission at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission filled with gambling, prediction market and crypto...
Since Donald Trump announced a ceasefire deal with great fanfare, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians while continuing to occupy Gaza and block aid. Now Trump and his entourage want to convert...
“I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept in an exclusive interview.
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A Democrat running for Senate in Texas has a complicated history with corporate America and the crypto industry.
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In response to today's High Court judgment that the proscription of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful, Tom Southerden, Amnesty International UK’s Law and Human Rights Director,...
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says socialism, defined by bold public solutions, not managerial caution, can rebuild the party after historic losses. He’s betting it can unite a majority across di...
The new oil blockade makes explicit what US policy has long denied — that economic warfare against Cuba targets civilians in the name of “regime change.”
After decades of euphemisms, Washington is ope...
It’s been very, very cold here at 45 degrees north. Cold enough to freeze water pipes, and then some. Once those pipes are frozen, people don’t always make the best choices about how to thaw them. Som...
In September 2025, my colleague Ilana Newman and I canoed 50 nautical miles down the Hudson River to spend time in and report on the environmental issues faced by the rural communities between Albany,...
Britain’s Labour prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein–associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But the party needs more than a makeover.
Keir...
Domestic work in Spain is often a low-paid job done by migrant women. A new study shows that half of them are subject to gender-based violence, harassed by their employers.
Data and testimonies collec...
In what one sage deemed "amateur-hour, clown-fucker, reality-show dictatorship shit," this week's House hearings on ICE abuses, Epstein cover-ups and other GOP atrocities showcased a parade of rancid,...
Small in comparison to coastal Norwegian salmon farms, with annual combined exports of 1.2 million tons, Blue Ocean Mariculture produces about 1,100 tons of fish annually in net pens submerged 30 to 1...
The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, left the country on a journey to exile on January 16, 1979. Less than a month later, on February 11, the popular revolution triumphed and closed the book of mo...
When Jeffrey Epstein began harvesting professors for his dinners masked as seminars, he was drawing from a bountiful crop. It’s the rare professor who can’t be compromised by money. Add celebrity, fin...
The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations...
By the time Klaus Barbie went on the payroll of an American intelligence organization in 1947, he had lived several lifetimes of human vileness. Barbie sought out opponents of the Nazis in Holland, ch...
The number of people who know that the Black community of Wilmington, Delaware was occupied by the National Guard for nine months after the 1968 assassination of MLK is minuscule. That is not an acci...
“We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state.” With those words, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich abandoned any remaining pretense. What he announced on February 10, 2...
A striking example of creative resistance comes from Switzerland, where around twenty Swiss lawyers have taken the extraordinary step of turning international law against their own foreign minister, I...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot at Phillip Brown’s car in Washington, D.C., last fall, the outcome offered a revealing lesson about accountability in the age of expanded federal p...
The novels of John Sayles encompass a wide swath of American history. Since the wide swath of American history is replete with one injustice after another, those are front and center in Sayles’s ficti...
I live my life surrounded by dead Middle Eastern men. They loom over my mornings from enamel street signs, glower from building façades and squat in the middle of traffic circles with stone hands rais...
Up to kick-off and even after it, I was expecting the Executive Order. Or the Black Shirts. Or both. If Commander-in-Chief Trump can, while flipping through his own large-print rulebook, change the na...
Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicaragua and Honduras during periods of “social and...
Warren Haynes had just moved to the East Village of New York in the summer of 1988. “Born on the edge of a lonely town,” as he described his Asheville, North Carolina upbringing in a song, Haynes woul...
Labor force participation for women with small children continues to float above prepandemic levels, thanks to flexible work setups — and rising costs.
The tentacles of the global logistics juggernaut Amazon reach into every corner of the economy, gripping the planet and workers. Amazon dominates retail e-commerce with a 40 percent market share. It i...
Two conservation groups, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety, today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force officials to set a binding date to finalize federal prot...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced its final rule to undo the agency’s 2009 foundational scientific finding that global warming emissions endanger public health and the env...
February 12, 2026 – Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced a plan to address an issue the Trump administration is calling “agricultural lawfare.” Rollins made the announcement at...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today revoked its long-standing, science-based conclusion that planet-warming greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. Known as the “endanger...
As climate accountability lawsuits move closer to trial across the country, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) announced this week that she is working with House and Senate colleagues to craft legislation...
This morning, White House Border Czar Tom Homan announced ICE and CBP will vacate Minnesota, after Minnesotans fought tirelessly to protect their communities against lawless immigration enforcement.
P...
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today welcomed the announced end of the ICE siege of Minneapolis as a “hard-fought community victory,” while warning that t...
Despite his later denial, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to keep a line open to Jeffrey Epstein. Emails between the two suggest that the world of the Big Tech elite is less a back room of evi...
Following widespread reports that the oil and gas industry has been lobbying Congress for a liability waiver that could give fossil fuel companies complete legal immunity, a U.S. House Representative...
Like many left-wing groups in the 1970s, the International Socialists hoped to build the class struggle by making a “turn to industry.” The IS’s efforts generated an important legacy in the form of La...
Unions have the resources to organize Amazon and are already working to do so. Building Amazon “labor tables” in key metro areas — regular meetings where unions agree to coordinate their efforts — wil...
Exclusive: First mapping of youth centres in decades shows poorer areas in north worst affected by cuts since 2010
‘We’re on a cliff edge’: the struggle to keep youth services alive in Knowsley
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Sources said the closure was connected to new counter-drone laser technology and miscommunication or misunderstanding by the FAA.
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Here are just some of the ways Trump’s ICE has terrorized thousands of children, like five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, since the administration took office.
Leaders across industries from airlines to packaged foods have said a growing divide between lower-income and wealthy consumers is changing their businesses.
February 11, 2026 – Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins joined Governor Greg Abbott in Texas Monday to announce the opening of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) facility that will be abl...
Today’s delayed report shows the United States added even fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported. Total job creation in 2025 was revised down from 584,000 to 181,000, or just 15,000 jobs per mont...
The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have form...
Major changes to a federal childcare grant program have forced student parents across the country to scramble for care in the middle of the academic year. The disruption has been felt by rural studen...
Photographs by Aya Brackett I’m Louis Trevino. Most importantly, I’m Vincent’s partner in life and in love, for which I am every day so very grateful. And I too am Ohlone from here in the East Bay, an...
February 10, 2026 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reassessing the safety of a common chemical preservative used in foods like frozen meals, deli meats, and breakfast cereals. Under the rea...
Volkswagen had dangled a treat: a ratification bonus of $4,000, sweetened by $1,500 if a first contract at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was approved by Halloween 2025. But auto worker...
In an extremely disappointing reversal, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is planning to keep its Kingston and Cumberland coal plants operating for the foreseeable future, blowing by its upc...
On January 31 my husband and I stood shoulder to shoulder with thousands of union members and community allies in Portland’s South Waterfront. We gathered for a peaceful, permitted rally and march: “L...
Neighbors helping neighbors. In a nutshell, that’s one way to describe the WindowDressers build. It happens in school gyms, American Legion Halls, churches – any place where a few tables can be groupe...
Good Bunny Bad Trump Dept: Super Bowl LX sucked, but Bad Bunny's exuberant "cultural landmine" of a half-time show was fire, a heartfelt, sanguine, unifying "love letter to the American Dream," or wha...
Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease
It would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living...
February 9, 2025 – The United States has finalized a deal with Argentina that is expected to more than quadruple beef imports from the South American country, acting on plans floated in October that r...
“The Trump administration’s hostility to farmers and rural America knows no bounds,” Bill Freese, science director at the Center for Food Safety (CFS), said in a press release. “Dicamba drift damage t...
Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009.
On Friday, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) filed an attorney disciplinary complaint against Gordon Kromberg, the federal prosecutor who reviewed and signed the search warrant application targeti...
A conversation with the Zohran Mamdani-appointee on why she’s “very, very interested” in bringing collectively-bargained leases and renter-owned housing to New York City
This story is published in partnership with Reveal and Mother Jones. It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Northern Montana. Joseph Eagleman was standing on a...
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her h...
The man in the video spoke Saint Aubin’s native language, Haitian Creole, and said you didn’t need to speak English to work in JBS’s Swift Beef Co. packing plant, where wages were high. He suggested t...
More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive ca...
February 6, 2025 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will scale back on enforcing food dye labeling, making it easier for food companies to advertise products as made with no artificial dyes. On...
Last year, an ice storm in late March knocked down many trees in my area, including around the edges of two fields behind my house. A few weeks later, a work crew showed up to clear downed trees befor...
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...
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has gained significant influence over the US health care system, according to a new report by Public Citizen. With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at the head of...
February 5, 2025 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new guidance this week that makes it clear that manufacturers cannot use the Clean Air Act to prevent farmers from fixing their own...
Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture....
Fifteen thousand New York nurses are more than three weeks into their strike for a fairer contract. Yesterday members of the New York State Nurses Association braved below-freezing temperatures to mar...
February 4, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that it is now operating the foreign food aid program Food for Peace and that it is moving quickly to get the program bac...
Workers in Malaysia who make screens like the one you are reading this article on are protesting after union leaders were fired following an organizing victory. The workers make LED screens for compan...
When Joe Ritchie thinks of his childhood in public housing in Cohoes, New York, he thinks of black dust. As a kid, Ritchie remembers playing on his neighborhood playground and watching dark dust cloud...
Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. When I...
One of those people is Tracy Wong, who turned her restaurant, My Huong Kitchen, into a refuge. Wong can’t help but help people. That’s something she says she’s tried to do all her life. And on the day...
Most farmers in the Future Harvest network operate small, diversified farms that sell directly to nearby communities. The organization also runs a well-known Beginner Farming Training Program, and man...
Starbucks barista Christi Gomoljak has been on strike for 80 days.
Managers at her Disney store in Anaheim, California had taken away the workers’ restroom without consultation. “There was a note on o...
As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medica...
Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power.
President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, t...
Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel creative resistance.
When Chad Raines took over his family’s Texas cotton farm in 2008, he thought the going would be easy. That’s because their first year was relatively profitable — but the success was short-lived. “Th...
The plants’ true treasure, though, is its seeds—and in 2024, the City Green plants produced more than 9,000. At a time when conflict in the Middle East has destroyed Palestinian farmland and foodways,...
Host Dan Denvir speaks with Minneapolis organizers about the impact of the Jan. 23, 2026, work stoppage amidst the continued ICE occupation of Minnesota.
When Barbara Miller was in elementary school, she covered her face while walking to class. “It hurt so bad to breathe. Your neck, your throat, your eyes,” Miller said. Doors that led to a breezeway go...
On a sub-zero day in Willmar, Minnesota, fifteen residents gathered around a table at a restaurant in town. It was the middle of the usual lunch rush on a Saturday, but the group sat alone. The restau...
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like f...
Readers respond to deepening poverty in the UK and ways to address it
Your editorial on deepening poverty in the UK (27 January) rightly condemns the decade and a half (and counting) of austerity. Mil...
Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climat...
We need to tackle the causes of renal failure and unequal access to care, writes Sandra Currie. Plus letters from Dominique E Martin on why markets in kidneys don’t work and a disgruntled altruistic l...
The rich and powerful have just gathered once again at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss ski resort that has hosted an annual meeting of the world’s super-rich for more than half a century....
Despite experiencing the harm of corporate greed and our collapsing social safety net firsthand, workers remain underrepresented in mainstream media. Here at Inequality.org we do our best to counterac...
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.