Mon, Sep 16 2019

Watch as Naomi Klein explains why the overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet's on fire. This video is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news…

Transgender people can be loved without labels that other us. I was 23 years old when I met my first boyfriend, a cisgender, bisexual, curly-haired boy who moved to my city in North Carolina from Chicago — he was charming and handsome with…

The Treasury Secretary's name shows up on official records for a company formed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Epstein's close friend, the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel. In the late 1980s—before he was a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet, or even a…

The Teamsters won't be transporting General Motors vehicles during the United Auto Workers' strike. International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said on Sunday that its members will stand in solidarity with the UAW and honor…

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Sunday that its roughly 48,000 hourly workers at General Motors C o facilities would go on strike as of midnight Sunday after U.S. labor contract talks reached an impasse, the first…

A Brazilian government official who spent more than a decade working to protect indigenous people in the Amazon from loggers, miners and other threats to their way of life has been killed. Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was shot twice in the head in…

In the span of 24 hours, a Republican state lawmaker in Texas threatened to gun down Beto O'Rourke over the former Congressman's assault weapons buyback proposal, a conservative PAC put out an inflammatory ad featuring a photo of Rep. Alexandria…

MIT bigwig Richard Stallman dismissed Epstein's underage victims in emails and defended child pornography on his blog. While MIT engages in damage control following revelations the university's Media Lab accepted millions of dollars in funding from…