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Schuyler MitchellThe Intercept |
A ban would be a nightmare for civil liberties. But TikTok, like all Big Tech platforms, is no friend to the left.
Republicans are pushing the new legislation, which will bring an already hostile immigration status quo into chaos.
“If you can make a sandwich, you can start a mutual aid network,” one Los Angeles organizer told Truthout.
Artificial intelligence is a water-guzzling industry hastening future climate crises from California's own backyard.
“The consistent defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” said a local activist. The post LA...
We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day. Nearly five years since COVID-19 was declared a global...
The autumn sun was sinking low behind the Blue Ridge Mountains as we pulled into Swannanoa. It was Thanksgiving Day, and two months since Hurricane...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing...
For nearly 90 years, the wealthiest country in the world has allowed thousands of disabled people to be paid mere pennies on the dollar. Now, after...
Five years ago, a group of 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific came together and hatched a bold new plan to bring the issue of...
The United States healthcare system is so broken, sometimes I forget that it used to be even worse. After all, 15 short years ago, pregnant people...
When schoolchildren across Texas return to classrooms next fall, thousands could encounter new, Bible-infused lessons. The Texas board of education...
Since last October, Israel has been able to wage a genocidal war on Gaza while receiving little more than a light slap on the wrist. President Joe...
Last week, 52 Democrats voted to embolden a fascist. Let’s back up. For the past year, leading members of the Democratic Party have increasingly...
For decades, making progress on global climate action has felt like trying to tunnel through a mountain with only a spoon and some elbow grease....
We’ve been here before. This is not 2016, when Donald J. Trump’s surge to victory shocked much of the nation. We know how Trump operates and...
There’s an old saying that goes, “If you put 10 economists in a room, you’ll get 11 opinions.” The data, meanwhile, shows that if you ask U.S....
The Veepification of U.S. politics reached its climax this month, as Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on a swing state campaign tour alongside...
On the morning of June 24, 2022, I woke up, checked my phone and saw that nearly 50 years of legal precedent had fallen. We’d heard it was coming,...
Oh poor, embattled Postal Service — your plight embodies the platitude, “We hurt the ones we love the most.” Year after year, you’re trotted...
On October 8, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a landmark rule aimed at tackling lead contamination in drinking water. Utility...
As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, residents are bracing for their second catastrophic storm in less than two weeks. Since September 26,...
“We thought we were going to die there. We didn’t think anybody was going to come back for us.” The post Hurricane-Struck North Carolina...
After the fire had retreated and the evacuation orders were lifted, my mother took me on a walk through our backyard. The pale dust of the southern...
Workers at a sprawling Amazon warehouse outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, have taken their first formal step forward in their fight to organize...
When it comes to the overdose crisis, Donald Trump would like you to believe that the problem — along with almost every other problem currently...
More than 33,000 Boeing factory workers in the Pacific Northwest voted to strike on September 13, in a monumental moment for labor that could...
On one of the most consequential nights in the 2024 presidential race, the fate of our entire planet received all of 120 seconds. Vice President...
The morning after a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, left four people dead and nine injured, members of the Georgia...
With the presidential election just two months away, all eyes are on Pennsylvania. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s campaigns have each spent...
Plastic waste is pummeling the South Pacific, polluting coral reefs and lagoons, washing up in tons on sandy shores and accumulating in a giant...
Summer is winding down, but the Tennessee Drivers Union is just getting started. Following a vote to unionize in late August, a coalition of...
I don’t want to mince words: Transgender people in the United States are facing an existential threat. You’ve likely heard the numbers, but they...
The climate crisis didn’t receive much primetime attention during this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC). But away from the bright...
As thousands of delegates flock to Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), much of the public will be watching to see how...
In the eastern reaches of the Mediterranean Sea lie vast reserves of natural gas. For more than a decade, Israel has generated billions of dollars...
The last time the Democratic Party released a platform, mass death and illness were haunting the political landscape. By mid-August 2020, more than...
As the world broils under month after month of record-shattering temperatures, thousands of activists are engaging in a new campaign of civil...
In the weeks since Joe Biden announced the end of his presidential campaign, a troubling phenomenon has taken hold of my TikTok “For You” page:...
In the turbulent final weeks of Joe Biden’s doomed reelection bid, as Democratic Party leaders coalesced in a full-throttle push to end the...
Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters union, took to the stage on the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) with some fiery...