Two years ago, mass protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police galvanized Americans to confront the disparate impact that a broken system of policing, arrest, and incarceration had on Black and Brown communities. For the first time in a generation, nearly all Americans favored the change to the criminal justice system....
Senator Joe Manchin’s International Nuclear Energy Act of 2022 is couched in a good deal of America first-style rhetoric, promising to deliver a new home-grown “whole-of-government strategy for nuclear cooperation and nuclear exports.” In reality, it is another fatal step backwards, one that will squander precious time while ...
Since the pandemic began, the United States has spent 7.5 times more money on nuclear weapons than on global vaccine donations. Stated another way, the money put towards global vaccine donations has amounted to just 13% of the money put toward nuclear weapons. The comparison shows that, even during a shared international crisis, in which an ou...
Parents forcibly separated from their children during then-President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown continue to suffer enduring trauma and should be justly compensated by a Biden administration that’s instead defending its predecessor in court, according to a report published Tuesday by a prominen...
More than five dozen advocacy groups on Wednesday pressured Congress to cut off U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, highlighting that it “has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people and pushed millions more to the edge of starvation.” The groups’ letter to Congress — led by Churc...
While the United States refuses to work with the Taliban, and NGOs follow suit, grassroots activists have no choice but to engage. I have been engaged in grassroots work for the rights and well-being of Afghan women for two decades. Given the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban on August 15, 2021, the question I […]
Following anger over disclosures that Amazon reached out to Global Strategy Group, a renowned Democratic polling firm, to aid its union-busting effort in New York City, the Democratic Party’s governing board is reportedly exploring a strategy to bar its consultants from anti-union action. According to a report in Politico, “a union...
On Tuesday, immigration justice campaigners demanded that federal lawmakers reject a legislative measure dubbed the “Stephen Miller bill” that would formalize a regulation that has resulted in the expulsion of more than 1.7 million asylum seekers since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. The proposal, officially known as the Public...
A federal court on Monday declared that a lawsuit seeking to bar Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress for her involvement in the January 6 Capitol Insurrection can go forward, allowing Georgia voters to challenge the Republican’s reelection attempt under the 14th Amendment. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the United St...
A report released on Monday stated that CEOs of some of the country’s major corporations made 254 times more than their median employees in 2021, as executive bonuses and stock awards increased remarkably. According to the most recent edition of the Equilar 100, an annual analysis that examines executive pay at large U.S. corporations, m...
