Canada’s Indigenous Genocide Is Ongoing
The recovery of mass and unmarked graves at former Indian residential school sites in recent weeks has released a deluge of outrage and grief across the settler colony known as Canada. Horrifying truths are being unearthed that reveal the treachery by which Canadian governments, churches and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) originally stole — […]
‘Vaccine Equity Is Urgent,’ Say Experts as Delta Variant Ravages Poor Nations
The rapid global spread of the so-called Delta variant—a highly contagious strain of Covid-19 now present in nearly 100 countries—has public health experts and advocates demanding immediate international action to distribute vaccines to unprotected populations amid growing concerns that the deadly virus is mutating more quickly than nations can administer shots. “Vaccine equity is urgent,” Madhukar Pai, an […]
Will Biden Be Forced to Give Up What Some Say is His Best Shot at Tackling Climate Change?
Much of the debate over President Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal has been over its $2 trillion price tag. But the most powerful tool for tackling the climate crisis in the American Jobs Plan, in the view of many environmentalists, isn’t money, but Biden’s proposal to create a national clean electricity standard. That idea—a mandate for […]
The GOP Has Declared a War on Protests
MIAMI — A black SUV, part of a Cubans for Trump caravan, rams into Jonathan Gartrelle, a Black Lives Matter activist at a small protest in downtown Miami on July 18, 2020. Video shows Gartrelle landing hard on the hood of the vehicle, then sliding off. The SUV speeds away. The man who drove into Gartrelle, an unidentified Trump supporter, is the one who’s pressing charges — against Gartrelle. The […]
Reality Winner, Whistleblower on Russian Hacking, Is Released From Prison
REALITY WINNER, the most prominent and harshly punished whistleblower of the Trump era, has been released to a halfway house after serving most of her five-year sentence for leaking a classified document on Russia’s effort to hack the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Court filings make clear that Winner had wanted to make Americans aware that the government had concluded that […]
2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, with several notable awards recognizing coverage of the pandemic and racial justice uprisings. Minneapolis’ Star Tribune won the Breaking News Reporting category for its “urgent, authoritative, and nuanced coverage” of George Floyd’s killing and its reverberations. The Marshall Project, which won an Izzy Award in 2020, was recognized alongside AL.com, […]
How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules
A battle over who is responsible for cleaning up hundreds of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is quietly playing out in a bankruptcy court in southern Texas. The contestants in this game of fossil fuel infrastructure hot potato: Fieldwood Energy, an offshore drilling company attempting to offload more than $7 billion […]
Corporations Are Trying to Co-opt Mindfulness to Avoid Meeting Workers’ Needs
It’s 6 a.m. You’re just arriving to your workplace, a 1 million-square-foot warehouse known as an Amazon fulfillment center. As a stower for Amazon, your job is to take the hundreds of items per hour that arrive at your roughly 10-foot-sized station and sort them onto shelves. As you start your shift, the loud sounds […]
Nobody Should Be Celebrating the Affordable Care Act
In fortifying for-profit health care companies, the Affordable Care Act became a cautionary tale about the political supremacy of an insurance industry that many Americans hate. But it has now become something even more profound: the ACA’s modest popularity, forged in desperation, proves that an initiative can now be considered a political “win” even as it […]
Not Even COVID-19 Could Slow Down Nuclear Spending
“IT’S VERY PROFITABLE to prepare for omnicide,” Daniel Ellsberg, famed whistleblower and anti-nuclear weapons activist, said in a recent interview. “Northrop Grumman and Boeing and Lockheed and General Dynamics make a lot of money out of preparing for such a war. The congressmen get campaign contributions, they get votes in their district and almost every state […]