CounterPunch explores the upcoming UFC White House spectacle and the Hollywood, DC, and Gulf power brokers at the nexus of US politics, sports and entertainment. Host Eric Draitser welcomes veteran co...

Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a number of members of the American New Left that had incubated on college campuses in the prior decade set out to take rank-and-file jobs as blue-collar workers. The...

Democrats are pushing to remove a key policy change to federal food assistance as the Senate Agriculture Committee continues drafting its version of a farm bill. The Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bil...

The smear campaigns reportedly targeted left-wing and pro-Palestine candidates in Scotland, New York, and France.

Jared Kushner, like the rest of the Trump family, uses the White House for personal enrichment.

The charges follow escalating repression by the University of Michigan against pro-Palestine students since 2024.

The donors’ net worth is $888 billion, nearly nine times Maine’s entire 2025 economic output. None are Maine residents.

Partnerships between the White House and UFC have raised a bevy of ethical concerns and legal questions.

Anthropic and OpenAI could join SpaceX with their own initial public offerings, setting many employees up to become millionaires or billionaires.

“If this kind of austerity can happen at The New School, it can happen everywhere,” says professor Jeremy Varon.

Catherine Liu is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. She’s the author of several books, most recently and the forthcoming . In the last few years, she’s eme...

LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.

Like Trump's pick for “acting” DNI Bill Pulte, Jay Clayton does not have an “extensive” national security background.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative board member Prentiss Haney accused the feds of using “straight-up intimidation tactics.”

The groups argue SpaceX's test launches send rocket debris into the area, which is home to an endangered ocelot.

He’s frustrated, but he’s keeping in his anger. Abdoulaye — the pseudonym of a famous Senegalese journalist who spoke to  — just doesn’t know if he’ll be able to cover his country’s match against Iraq...

Ha-Joon Chang is one of the world’s most influential heterodox economists. A professor at SOAS University of London and the author of , , and , among other works, he has spent decades challenging the...

As the rocket company SpaceX has the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) today — a blockbuster event that stands to make Elon Musk a trillionaire — stock market regulators quietly handed Wall S...

The post What a Trillion Dollars Tells Us About Who Really Runs the World appeared first on Inequality.org.

Labor recruitment in postwar West Germany drew in millions of “guest workers” from Turkey, Italy, Greece, and elsewhere — and they also brought their culinary traditions with them. From Turkey, the dö...

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is largely targeting people from the countrie...

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 for conversations about repopulating Olympia oysters, and Colorado entrepreneurs growing low-water grains in the San Luis Valley. Plus, a review of the latest albums from Noah Kahan and Kacey...

The post A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune. appeared first on ProPublica.

After the greatest comeback in NBA finals history - 29 points! - "the greatest shot in Knicks history" - Anunoby's last-second tip-in - some divine intervention - a Pope Leo jersey - and a smudging to...

ante himself couldn't have found a better spot in Hell to deposit James Dolan, maybe the worst owner in all of professional sports (and that's really saying something), than to lock him in a box next...

You know something is amiss when a World Cup referee is denied entry to the United States while Canada and Mexico appear to present no such obstacles. That is what happened when Somali match official...

When the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings for current Department of Interior head Doug Burgum, he made it quite clear that he viewed public lands, lands belongi...

Did Trump really “end” eight wars? Are the underlying conflicts actually over? Lebanon remains unstable. Iran and Israel continue to exchange threats and attacks. Russia and Ukraine are still at war....

The World Cup, being held in Mexico, the US, and Canada, will “unite the people,” said Canadian soccer player, Jonatha Osorio. “The world will be invading Canada, Mexico and the USA with a big wave of...

CounterPunch explores the upcoming UFC White House spectacle and the Hollywood, DC, and Gulf power brokers at the nexus of US politics, sports and entertainment. Host Eric Draitser welcomes veteran co...

The phrase “competitive authoritarianism” has become a common go-to way for liberal and leftish academics, pundits, journalists, and “activists” to foolishly avoid using the scary “F-word” – fascism –...

America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme...

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. – Marx Brothers, Duck Soup Among the many WTF questions that the Marx Brot...

In late May 2026, Rome Pride organizers delivered a clear and courageous message: there will be no platform for complicity with genocide. Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQ+ organization, Keshet Italia, was ba...

When we were fighting the IMF and World Bank-imposed structural adjustment or austerity programs in the 1980s and 1990s, many of us thought that we were up against a strategy that had been formulated...

The struggle of the United Front of Pueblos of La Laguna in Defense of Life, Land, and Water in Durango – birth state of the legendary revolutionary, Pancho Villa– against the transnational corporatio...

When Congress wants to do something that the American public would object to, it buries it. That is exactly what it did with Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s draft Fiscal Year 2027...

This year’s World Cup is historic because for the first time ever it will be co-hosted simultaneously by three countries: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. However, in Mexico it will leave behind...

The president fired off an angry rant directed at Rep. Jamie Raskin, a frequent critic.

Political experts say that hefty campaign spending can boost candidates, though it also has notable limits.

For years their pay topped out at $22 an hour, max. Now $22 becomes a new hire’s starting pay, under the tentative agreement workers at American Axle reached on Wednesday, after 10 days on strike. The...

Barnard Construction Company, Inc., has received $4.54 billion in awards from Customs and Border Protection alone.

Trump threatened to hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” then announced hours later he had “cancelled the scheduled strikes.”

The mothers of disappeared people have also been protesting, trying to reach the stadium, says José Luis Granados Ceja.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to be Director of National Intelligence. Last year, former Attorney General Pam Bondi assi...

With Donald Trump’s pardon of former Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer over the weekend, he has now pardoned at least 11 former GOP politicians, almost all of them on charges of corruption or somehow violating...

The Trump administration baselessly accused the award-winning referee of having “terror” ties.

The State Department finally overruled RFK Jr.’s defunding of a group that vaccinates 60 percent of children globally.

June 11, 2026 – Senate Democrats want the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to do more to combat a recent outbreak of New World Screwworm (NWS) and to provide more transparency through the process...

None of Trump’s stated goals in his war with Iran have been achieved. The post A Point-by-Point Breakdown of Trump’s Failed Iran War Objectives appeared first on The Intercept.

Today, Public Citizen released a new report analyzing the lobbying and political spending of 88 corporations that paid zero in corporate income taxes in 2025. The corporations in question were identif...

Everybody’s been talking and writing about the enormous box-office success and staying power of  and, two low-budget horror films made by young directors who came to fame for their works on YouTube. T...

If you scan social media, the conversation about American families seems like a cesspool: arguments abound over whether podcaster Alex Cooper’s pregnancy is , whether “girlbosses” are for America’s d...

Amust-pass congressional funding package for the nation’s roads, bridges, and public infrastructure includes an industry-friendly carveout that would give ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft legal im...

The Trump administration has awarded nearly $103 million in federal contracts and grants for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations to a network of politicized entities under the control of Trump...

A new form of cryptocurrency called “stablecoins” has exploded onto the global financial scene. Created just over ten years ago, the industry’s expected growth sets it on a path to rival some of the l...

Should we euthanize the Democratic Party? It’s a question Les Leopold is pondering as he looks out upon the American political landscape. He doesn’t quite advocate a swift and complete death for the p...

É douard Louis was only twenty-one years old when his debut novel, , became an overnight sensation. Taking its cue from fellow French writers such as Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon, the memoir describ...

I live in a ghost town. No, really. In March, I took a job editing a local newspaper in Glasgow, Montana. Yet, unable to find a house in town, I wound up living about 20 miles north in Saint Marie – d...

From June 12-14th, Metropolis, IL will hold its annual Superman Celebration, featuring franchise actors, vendors, a carnival, and fans from across the world. The post Superman Fans Flock to a Rural M...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. A half-dozen cars had been in the queue for nearly four hours by the time the House of Hope mobile food pantry line in Delbarton, West Virginia,...

The post Lawmaker Pushes for Ban on Special Treatment for Convicted Drug Traffickers After ProPublica Report appeared first on ProPublica.

As inflation outpaces workers’ wages, the Trump administration insists that its agenda is working.

The Consumer Price Index is one of the last major data releases ahead of Kevin M. Warsh’s first meeting as chair of the Federal Reserve.

Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), the organization dedicated to rank-and-file organizing within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is one of the most important labor reform organization...

Tribal and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to Sp...

On June 14, the White House will be hosting an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event called “Freedom 250.” The date of the event happens to coincide with Donald Trump’s eightieth birthday. Zac Br...

On Wednesday, Demand Progress launched AI Money Watch, a new website that tracks campaign spending from Leading the Future, an AI Super PAC bankrolled by co-founders from OpenAI and Andreessen Horowit...

Prof Kathy Willis responds to research showing that the poorest areas in the country face the deepest cuts to green spaces The new research covered in your report (England’s poorest areas face deepest...

As over 1.3 million Palestinians live in  and makeshift shelters due to Israel’s mass bombings,  at least 92 percent of Gaza’s residential infrastructure, New York Democrats who voted to supply those...

System not fit for purpose due to poor infrastructure and planning, with minority groups particularly at risk, MPs say The UK’s stem cell transplant system is potentially putting the lives of blood ca...

The Illinois General Assembly’s 2026 session wrapped up without advancing the POWER Act, a bill that proposes regulation on data centers. On June 5, 2026, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced a pau...

Cemeteries are inherently about history, filled with names and dates folks thought would never be forgotten – or so it says on the stones.  For generations, those places were integrated into community...

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If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? The post Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking appeared first on The Intercept.

The post What You Need to Know About How Tear Gas Harms Kids appeared first on ProPublica.

After college, I moved to Los Angeles and pursued a fashion career. But a decade in, I felt that something was missing. In 2009, my grandmother passed away, and I started to think about the farm. I di...

Solar provides more than twice the share of electricity it did five years ago.

A billionaire running as a progressive failed to defeat Steve Hilton, a Republican who will face Democrat Xavier Becerra in November. The post In California, a Former Biden Official Will Face Fox News...

Anarchists, union activists, Indigenous organizers, and disgruntled Trumpists find themselves side by side in the fight.

The Marine Corps veteran won his primary in a landslide despite a raft of negative press. The post Graham Platner Wins in Maine, Turning Anti-Establishment Fight on Susan Collins appeared first on The...

Tens of thousands of California educators joined forces statewide, wagering that they could win more by working together. The result was a wave of strikes this school year that defied narratives of au...

The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report: “This is the first Social Security trustees report that begins to take...

The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance, regarding the Trustees’ reports on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released today. The report sta...

June 9, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week released a plan to support small meat processing plants through a set of regulatory actions and $60 million in new grant funding for...

Public transit has been in a deep crisis since the Covid pandemic. Transit systems weren’t adequately funded to begin with. Then, as remote work increased, ridership declined. Now, emergency relief an...

By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.

Industry-backed pesticide immunity laws are advancing nationwide, raising fears that farmers and families harmed by pesticides could lose their right to seek justice.

The post He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. appeared first on ProPublica.

The post An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr. appeared first on ProPublica.

Editor’s Note: The population data in this article is preliminary. The author downloaded the U.S. Census Bureau’s full Vintage 2025 Population Estimates file (CO-EST2025-alldata), identified the 60 co...

The post A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One appeared first on ProPublica.

A bill to boost a wood-pellet industry plagued by pollution violations sailed through the Legislature.

Piepenburg came out and came of age in the ‘90s, moving from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Washington, D.C., and eventually New York City, where he lives today and works as a journalist for The New York...

One plan would see young workers offered early access to a slice of future pensions. It’s not perfect, but we need bold ideas While we wait with nail-biting anxiety for the voters of Makerfield to dec...

Bad Men Behaving Badly Chap. 746: 'Cause it's not awful enough we have to endure the racist crap spewing from our home-grown jackasses, the rest of the world just bore grim witness to it as dunk-tank...

The post AI Runs the Global Gig Economy. Governments Must Respond. appeared first on Inequality.org.

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The post Big Tech Built a Gig Economy That Works Against Us appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies appeared first on ProPublica.

The Global Justice Report offers a hopeful bargain: tax extreme wealth and replace consumer excess with social and economic security for all Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and...

This year’s World Cup is historic because for the first time ever it will be co-hosted simultaneously by three countries: Mexico, the United States, and Canada. However, in Mexico it will leave behind...

Silicon Valley fuels them. Wall Street loves them. Prediction markets are everywhere, and ordinary people will pay the price.

Today, more than 325 organizations including labor unions, advocates for seniors and people with disabilities, women’s rights organizations, and more, released an open letter to those seeking to refor...

The post What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks appeared first on ProPublica.

While accessing health care is hard for rural residents, it’s even harder if they have disabilities, new research finds. According to a study by the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Cente...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Amanda Koehler...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. The Trump administration’s rollout of a federal mandate that millions of Americans on Medicaid must work or risk losing health benefits will for...

The post A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record. appeared first on ProPublica.

“Nobody gets into farming for sane reasons, other than the sanity of knowing where your food comes from,” said one student at the Great Lakes Incubator Farm, which gives aspiring farmers a place to ex...

“It was a happy surprise to hear that José Andrés had selected this story,” Nelson said. “He is someone I hugely admire for his ability to pair his passion with purpose, and I really appreciate the wa...

Too many leaders have appeased the rightwing culture warriors. In the wake of the Henry Nowak rioting, the time for a push against toxicity and untruths is now It is easy to regard, and thus disregard...

The post Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges appeared first on ProPublica.

June 5, 2026 – The federal government is urging cattle ranchers to take precautions to combat further spread of New World screwworm (NWS) flies, following the first domestic detection since the 1960s...

El líder del sindicato de trabajadores de Honda ganó su reinstalación la semana pasada, en una victoria importante para trabajadores que buscan construir sindicatos democráticos en el sector automotri...

Exciting news, patriots! After cancelling his OG concert, Dear Leader will now celebrate our 250th birthday with "the Greatest Rally, EVER!" featuring the "fabulous" 83-year-old Lee Greenwood and “a f...

The leader of Mexico's Honda workers’ union won reinstatement last week, in an important win for workers seeking to build real unions in the country's massive auto sector. But it took 15 years for Jos...

The post North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy appeared first on ProPublica.

The post These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash. appeared first on ProPublica.

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 for conversations about Pride Month, birthright citizenship affecting Native Americans, and a Midwest town that hosts an annual owl festival. This week's musician is metal artist Nico Albert W...

Market Match gives shoppers who use CalFresh (California’s name for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $15 per visit to purchase fresh produce at...

June 4, 2026 – Leaders of school meal organizations and former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) heads say they are alarmed at the agency’s plan to relocate the employees who oversee 16 federal fo...

After Bill Pulte’s appointment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for reforms to FISA that would protect privacy and democracy it...

Sanders has said his endorsements are about “building a movement for the future” capable of not just taking on the GOP, but also the Democratic Party establishment.

Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.

Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns The poorest and most nature-deprived communities in England will be further left beh...

The post In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations appeared first on ProPublica.

It was sunset in early March and a chirping sound echoed across the fields of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Thousands of birds swirled overhead, coming down to roost. Every spring, sandhil...

The post I Got Access to Hundreds of Teacher Misconduct Complaints in California — and You Can Too appeared first on ProPublica.

Editor’s note: This story is the fourth in a four-part series examining the impact of Trump administration cuts to local food systems. As president, Biden made climate action a central pillar of his a...

Two poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America.

The post Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns appeared first on ProPublica.

Editor’s note: This story is the third in a four-part series examining the impact of Trump administration cuts to local food systems. As the farm moves toward the launch of summer shares, some workers...

Responding to a new warning from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that El Niño conditions are strengthening and likely to drive more extreme weather in the coming months. Anne Jellema, Exec...

The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article about Tony Blair’s vision for the future Jonathan Freedland says Tony Blair “would say you can only address [poverty and inequality] once the economy is...

Since electing new leadership in 2022, Teamsters Local 135 in Indiana has completely changed the way it conducts negotiations. It’s using open bargaining to revitalize the local. Under the previous le...

How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia.

The post INEOS Teamsters and Chemical Workers Fight for a Fair Deal appeared first on Inequality.org.

Editor’s note: This story is the second in a four-part series examining the impact of Trump administration cuts to local food systems. Dubrick also advocates for small-scale livestock farms as a polic...

Amidst the ongoing awful, we take wary solace in the modest routs newly inflicted on our wannabe Great Dictator. He lost yugely in multiple courts as judges reopened his bogus IRS suit, froze his slus...

June 1, 2026 – Despite thousands of comments in opposition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finalized a rule today to delay tighter regulations related to how contract farmers are paid withi...

Imagine sleeping each night above more than a million barrels of oil while navigating the open ocean, maneuvering through narrow channels, and passing beneath bridges in some of the country’s most con...

Solidarity among co-workers is your source of power against the employer. And one essential ingredient for solidarity is respect. In the workplace we typically don’t experience respect—we experience c...

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a four-part series examining the impact of Trump administration cuts to local food systems. He passed a barn where members pick up their Community Supported A...

The right to strike is under attack throughout the world, including in the United States. Labor strikes are currently forbidden or restricted in the majority of countries. Now, in a landmark 43-page a...

With a federal Republican trifecta, the reproductive and disability justice movements need each other more than ever.

‘¡Demandamos libertad!’: Inmigrantes en huelga en prisión de Nueva Jersey

“We are also doing this to demand freedom," said one of the workers. "We’re not treated like people. We’re treated like animals.”

May 29, 2026 – A document President Donald Trump filed with the Office of Government Ethics last week shows his portfolio managers purchased stock in a long list of food and agriculture companies duri...

On a patch of sidewalk on a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests, and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bull...

Arizona residents recently won a major fight for democratic public ownership of their electric utility.

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer...

In the wake of retaliatory firings, ex-Gazette-Post seek to keep Pittsburgh journalism alive.

New comics on the state of the world by Brian McFadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen.

The post The Shameful Hypocrisy of Schwab’s Donor-Advised Fund Affiliate appeared first on Inequality.org.

More than 4,000 UAW members are on strike at Harvard University.

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The post The U.S. Military is Intensifying Hawai’i’s Housing Affordability Crisis appeared first on Inequality.org.

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.