An increasingly organized Antifa movement is on the rise. (Reveal News, By Will Carless) The Signal messages appear in staccato bursts: “We all in blac bloc bout to join.” “We in the streets.” Looking up ...
U.S. Customs has chosen 4 contractors to build 30-foot concrete prototypes of the Mexico border wall. (Reveal News, by Patrick Michels and Andrew Becker) President Donald Trump’s border wall came a little bit closer to reality on Thursday, as ...
Our media consolidation problem. (The Conversation, by Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania) On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The Atlantic. It’s the ...
ICE agents seek greater data mining ability with help from private sector. (Reveal News, By Patrick Michels / August 25, 2017) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for help from the private sector to gather ...
Politicians have stolen our right to vote before. They’ll do it again if they get the chance. (Other Words, Diallo Brooks) One October morning in Richmond, Virginia, 32-year old Joseph Cox watched his friends and neighbors go to the ...
“You do have to wonder when working-class Trump supporters will start to notice such things.” (CommonDreams.org, by Jake Johnson) Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has chosen ex-Goldman Sachs bankers to fill several key positions within ...
Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? (Inequality.org, by Stewart Lansley) Many attempts to tackle inequality fall short because they fail to target ...
Think the CEOs of the largest phone, cable and internet companies should call all the shots when it comes to Net Neutrality? The Net Neutrality Debate. (FreePress.net, by Candace Clement) Think the CEOs of the ...
The real estate firm partially owned by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been accused of promoting its connection to Trump to gain investors. (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) As questions about the Trump administration’s conflicts of ...
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student (Jared Kushner), he covered is now poised to become one of the ...
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in Kansas. (Chelsie Bright, Mills College) Six years before Trump was tweeting about stolen elections and unsubstantiated claims of millions ...
Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them. (ProPublica, Joe Sexton) Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations ...
Trump Collusion: The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin. by (Peter Certo, Otherwords.org) I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s ...
While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. (by Aditi Katti, Inequality.org) It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s ...
Proposed federal wage chief, sued for not paying house cleaners. By Will Evans Reveal. This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco ...
People power wins in Atlantic City: “A ringing endorsement of the work done by community members to save their water system from a corporate takeover.” (Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Atlantic City, New Jersey’s city council ...
Tomorrow join 70,000 in fighting for net neutrality. (FreePress.Net) The Trump FCC — like the rest of this administration — is doing everything in its power to serve corporations and harm the rest of us. ...
Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes. (By ProPublica and The Real Deal). In April 2016, ...
On February 26, 1993 a truck bomb exploded in the underground parking garage below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City killing 6 Americans and injuring over a thousand more. To this ...
(Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Cezary Podkul, May 15, 2017) In the early 2000s, banks successfully sued to stop Iowa from limiting their ability to charge ATM fees to non-customers. They also fought off ...
(Reposted with permission from ANTIMEDIA) In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households through ownership of local news stations, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group ...
Ibragim Todashev was a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers; aka the Boston Marathon bombers. Todashev was interviewed by the FBI several times. During his last interview with the FBI he was shot and killed by FBI agents who claim ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun and Jessica Huseman. Update, May 1, 2017: The Department of Homeland Security updated its website on Monday, May 1, 2017 to include the name of Julie Kirchner ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The two American investigators felt a sense of foreboding that Sunday as they headed to an emergency meeting with their boss on the Iraqi air base. But they didn’t expect to be ...
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark gives a talk on the “American plutocracy” and the one ruling party, “the war party”, that governs the U.S.
A 2016 report from the non-profit, non-partisan organization Citizens For Tax Justice documents the tax abuses and tax avoidance practices of U.S. corporations.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union” — so begins the most treasured document in American history, the United States Constitution. Right now we are only 6 states away ...
Who Really Rules? A study released in 2014 studied 20 years worth of data to answer the questions, “Who governs? Who really rules? To what extent is the broad body of U.S. citizens sovereign, semi-sovereign, ...
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