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Join the Discussion →April 13, 2026 – The number of people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dropped by 2.5 million people in the first six months after the passage of major policy chan...
The Iranian Red Crescent Society says four of its workers have been killed by the US-Israeli aggression.
Trump's federal voter suppression efforts are being aided by restrictive new elections laws in several GOP-run states.
Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports and Iran threatened to strike other Gulf ports in retaliation.
Accelerating greenhouse gas emissions threaten Louisiana with rising sea levels and more extreme hurricanes.
This brings the total number of people killed in the US’s illegal boat strike campaign to 168.
Israel is also perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Lebanon.
Over 100 immigration judges have been fired by the administration thus far in Donald Trump’s second term.
In a Truth Social screed, Trump accused the Pope of being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.”
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has contracted with two troubled companies to build and operate a massive new billion-dollar ICE detention center in Texas. One company, Acquisition Logi...
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said. The post State Department Tells Human Righ...
US soldiers have a rich history of questioning the wars they’re told to wage abroad.
The first vessel has crossed the Strait of Hormuz after the US imposed a military blockade of Iran's ports.
Alongside protests against raids and deportations, small actions of absurdist disruption can also prove to expose the raw violence of those in power.
In a speech marking his first 100 days as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani describes his administration’s accomplishments so far and champions “pothole politics,” a 21st-century version of Milwauke...
The policy sought to revoke journalists’ access to the inside of the Pentagon building.
The answer to the question is this: No. At 9:49 pm on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image (previously shared months ago online by MAGA zealot Nick Adams and others) tha...
Instead of restoring or increasing funding to programs with a proven record of strengthening children’s long-term prospects, the Trump administration is creating investment accounts for kids that offe...
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million e...
You may recall Khiara Bridges from That Video—the one from July 2022, where she calls Missouri Senator Josh Hawley “transphobic” to his face. As one of the leading scholars in the country on race and...
Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of...
With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship,...
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán combined talk of defending Hungary’s traditions with a promise of prosperity. When he stopped delivering workers good economic news, culture-war messaging wasn’t enough t...
A recent study published in Health Affairs found that the incidents of dual classification have exploded over the past decade, increasing the money dual-classified hospitals get to run their operation...
When UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese visited Serbia in March, the government cast her as an interfering foreigner. Yet it was happy to back the Israeli embassy’s campaign to silence pro-Pales...
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In 2022, she received a James Beard Leadership Award for a project she launched there, “The Humans Who Feed Us,” a series of first-person stories about food-system workers. In February, she won the El...
Ophir Falk, foreign policy adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, put the matter succinctly when answering a question from National Public Radio about whether the Israeli prime minister supported Trump’s peac...
As our power-mad president tapped out that genocidal threat, a whale shark in the Persian Gulf was navigating waters it has known for millennia. It is the largest fish alive¹ — the size of a school bu...
The planet’s climate system has turned erratic. Scientific reports over the past 24 months signal trouble ahead as forecasts become impossible with a helter-skelter system. It’s almost like the planet...
The journey of my prayer rug reflects my own as a Muslim American. It has seen a lot, and despite its fraying fringes, remains resilient as ever. Praying five times each day is one of the pillars of I...
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress…Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.”–Frederick Douglass After 14 months of negotiations, at 4 AM Sunday morning UTLA...
As expected, inflation was sharply higher in March than in prior months. The overall inflation rate for March was 1.3 percent, although inflation in the core index was just 0.2 percent. This brought t...
Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party Volume One, Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements. Edited by Jay Shaffner, Paul Friedman, Cindy Hawes, Geoffrey Jacques, Timothy Johnson, Ca...
The recent events on the national and world stage are pretty hard to ignore given the effects on Americans, our allies and even our fellow Montanans who just want to go fishing. But the wheels are co...
US president Donald Trump says that his war in Iran – currently in a supposed ceasefire – resulted in “total and complete victory. 100%. No question about it.” The Iranian regime, via a statement from...
Our smart phones reveal a lot about us. In order to function, they connect with communications networks and geolocation services, creating detailed maps of our daily lives. If you knew how to read the...
Our dependence on fossil fuels does more than pollute our air. It destabilizes the world and empowers the ultra-wealthy to profit off of that volatility, leaving working families to pay the price. Thi...
Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite its increasingly corporate and commercial n...
Was it just me or was there nothing more weird than when the US over a year ago opened up direct US-Russian talks on Ukraine without even having Ukraine in the room? I keep coming back to that, especi...
Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by the sight of two heroes of my time, but Dad wa...
‘Development in reverse’ taking place involving rising energy and food costs and weaker economic growth More than 32 million people worldwide could be plunged into poverty by the economic fallout from...
This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—the federal agency that oversees Wall Street—announced that it has brought almost 30 percent fewer new enforcement actions against companies in...
City officials wrap flagpoles in rainbow colors to create Pride flagpoles.
The strike killed 21 people, including children as young as 2 years old.
“We are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization,” DCI-P's general director said.
The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great. Nat Fyfe thanks fans as he leave...
Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally explo...
Years of IMF and World Bank reforms have created two-tiered health care systems across Africa. In Kenya, the private sector is out of reach for most, but public health care has been wrecked by budget...
The horrifying revelations of César Chávez’s widespread sexual abuse of young women and girls were in part rooted in the culture of unquestioning loyalty and top-down dictation that Chávez established...
Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk’s workforce purge warn the State Department is unable to help Americans stranded in the Middle East. The post DOGE Cuts Left U.S. Unable to Help Americans S...
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have ta...
Critics read Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, as a commentary on smartphones. But with gothic style and a Victorian temperament, it meditates on a much older technology — the spectral quality of...
Trump has endorsed Viktor Orbán and even sent his vice president to campaign for him ahead of Sunday’s election. It may not be enough.
Capitalists have succeeded in arranging the future as a calculable source of extraordinary wealth, enriching a few in the present by imposing debts on the vast majority — and undermining the environme...
Zohran Mamdani’s early wins are a testament to what a talented left-wing municipal executive can accomplish even in the face of major obstacles. But much of his ambitious agenda will remain blocked if...
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washingt...
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Airlines used to give away most of their nicest seats, but they have increasingly found ways to persuade people to pay a lot for them.
Eighty-six organizations that work on migrant rights, human rights, and humanitarian aid sent a letter to Congress today as the U.S. military threatens to detain Cubans in Guantánamo should they begin...
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Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices surged 3.3% over the past year in March. Prices jumped by 0.9% in the past month alone. The spike in prices was largely driven by the energy pric...
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Tune in for conversations about innovative childcare solutions, Appalachian weaving traditions, reminiscences of a post-war baseball league, and the network of southern schoolhouses that transformed t...
Three employees described a hostile work environment under Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence
Two proposals—one in California, one in Congress—could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.
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April 9, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this week finalized a rule that will overhaul how the agency implements a key environmental law. The new rule will significantly pare back env...
The post “A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims appeared first on ProPublica.
Dr. Hatem Bazian on ICE's abduction of a beloved community member who played a major role in the local Palestine movement—and how he may have been wrongly targeted because of it.
The Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan – as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 – is failing, according to a progress scorecard released today by five humanitarian organizations. T...
This year, my part of rural northern Wisconsin got hit with a March blizzard that dropped 30-plus inches of fresh snow. That’s a lot of weight on a roof. So as soon as the wind calmed down, we got out...
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The Maine Wire presents itself as a plucky upstart fighting for the common Mainer, but it’s fueled by powerful right-wing money men. The post GOP Megadonor Leonard Leo Is Bankrolling a Website on the...
Skilled electricians, plumbers and factory workers are in demand, but job openings have dropped.
A new report shows that candidates with backgrounds in labor unions can win the support of working people. The Democratic Party should take note.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a technical assistance program for water infrastructure in early March 2026 designed to help rural communities update and repair aging water uti...
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Trump’s court losses give the beleaguered industry a chance to get back on stable footing.
More than six years later, the webpage that outlined that plan redirects visitors to a page on regenerative agriculture, where the word “pesticide” does not appear. “They are no longer aligning their...
Chavez’ once-saintly reputation is forever destroyed, but the union doesn’t have to be. For the sake of farmworkers who deserve better, the UFW should take swift, drastic steps to begin repairing its...
Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s statement about Iran on Truth Social on 7 April 2026, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, Agn...
President Donald Trump’s and his administration’s escalating threats against Iran, including alluding to first-use of nuclear weapons, have reached a breaking point. For the safety and security of the...
The recklessness of the US and Israeli bombing attacks on Iran that now threaten to potentially destroy the Bushehr commercial nuclear power plant there, represents a radiological risk of monumental p...
Mildred Trammell Elliott taught school for 46 years. She spent just over half of that span in Eastern Kentucky. Her arduous introduction to the profession at age 18 in 1929 came after just one year of...
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The funding came through the Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program (ILCM), the result of years of advocacy. It was the federal government’s most ambitious effort to address the compoundi...
In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons...
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The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world
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On a chilly spring morning in downtown Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a town of around 2,400 in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a double line of tents stood parallel to the railroad tracks, filled with people...
This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids. That monthly total...
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Some AI models try to predict disease outbreaks or track when nets need repairing. Some are also programmed to act without human input—for example, administering laser energy to kill sea lice, a major...
An earlier spring affects when migratory birds arrive, leaves emerge, and fruit ripens — among plants and animals that determine ecosystem health.
In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, there are painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.
April 3, 2026 – The White House has proposed a 19 percent cut in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget for the upcoming fiscal year, with an increase in spending for the agency’s reorganiza...
Robust job growth in March suggests that the labor market remains relatively healthy, allowing officials at the central bank to focus on fighting inflation.
Today, President Trump released his administration’s FY2027 budget, doubling down on an unpopular economic agenda that is raising costs and ripping away support for working families. Trump’s budget pr...
In the wake of President Trump’s removal of Pam Bondi, Our Revolution, the largest grassroots-funded progressive political organizing group in the country, is calling on Senate Democrats to withhold a...
April 3, 2026 – Leaders of federal agencies on Thursday announced two actions they say are aimed at protecting Americans from the potential dangers of microplastics. Microplastics are widespread in wa...
Today’s jobs report shows the labor market added 178,000 jobs in March, and February’s losses significantly revised down, revealing a decrease of 133,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained mostly un...
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Today, the Trump Administration appointees on the National Capital Planning Commission, which provides overall planning guidance for federal land and buildings in the District, overrode opposition fro...
Gulf and environmental groups sued the Trump Administration today over its decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from imperiled species threatened by oil-and-gas offshore drilling activi...
April 2, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has paused processing applications for a popular rural energy program, further delaying funds to farmers as high energy costs vex rural commun...
Growing concerns that microplastics – tiny plastic particles found in human bodies and the environment – are toxic to human health led the EPA today to identify microplastics as a contaminant of conce...
Today, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is including microplastics on the draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6), a list of unregulated contaminants that are known or likely...
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The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.
Thawing from a difficult winter, Minnesotans in small towns across the state joined the third wave of nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests Saturday, March 28. A lot had happened since they protested last Oc...
Despite the Shakers’ penchant for simplicity (the hymn “Simple Gifts” is one of their best-known cultural contributions), “The Testament of Ann Lee” has a baroque sensibility. The film is a riot of mo...
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April 1, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has yet to initiate the 2025 application and payment process for funds authorized by Congress to help farmers afford organic certification. Th...
If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.
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For some rural Texans, the closest link to a doctor may now be the local library. Across the state, libraries are helping residents, particularly older adults, access telehealth appointments and digit...
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Photographs by Joseph Bui He carefully rolls the cuff of his jeans to his knee and raises his foot so she can see it more clearly. Through a medical student translating her English to Vietnamese, Díaz...
Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just fo...
March 31, 2026 — The Trump administration is pushing hospitals to align patient meals with the latest Dietary Guidelines by phasing out ultra-processed food and high-sugar foods in favor of fruits, ve...
How America’s history with Iran has already shaped ordinary lives
Washington State just enacted a historic "millionaire tax"—and as organizers set their sights on state legislatures, more could soon follow suit.
For months, the country and the world have been watching Minnesota, where the Trump administration’s military occupation by ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security has been met by a multi-faceted gr...
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Since 2022, this truck, the People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market, has sold affordable fresh fruits and vegetables to local residents, helping many stretch their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro...
March 30, 2026 – Amid farm economy struggles and rising gas prices, President Donald Trump announced on Friday the release of an updated biofuel policy and temporary boosts to ethanol sales. Speaking...
Federal agents “denied Minnesota investigators access to key information” in the DHS shootings, the lawsuit says.
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Leaders in city and state government support raising taxes on the wealthy, but Gov. Hochul and Speaker Menin are refusing to get on board. Now, grassroots groups are increasing the pressure.
FOIA records obtained by Type Investigations and In These Times raise questions about evidence presented in Prairieland case.
“Grief does not go anywhere, but instead takes up residence within us.”
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for i...
A partnership aims to ease food insecurity in low-income areas underserved by grocery stores Dozens of newly planted fruit trees have created an oasis in a Florida “food desert” after local groups tea...
The espresso machine in Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s personal office in Newport Beach, California, retails for $14,000—almost as much as the $14,674 annual wage of the coffee giant’s median worker, a...
Last year a network of unions and community organizations organized the largest May Day actions in U.S. history: 1,200 actions in all 50 states. This year, the stakes are even higher, and the examples...
When it comes to A.I., there’s a stark gap in ambition between business and labor. If A.I. ushers in a technological boom, corporations intend to use it to wage total war on labor. They will use effi...
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Desde que más de 4.000 agentes del ICE llegaron a la ciudad de Minneapolis, el barista de Starbucks Alex Rivers ha intentado a equilibrar la rigurosa concentración que exige el trabajo–se espera que l...
Labor Notes is delighted to welcome two terrific new staff writer-organizers and three great interns as we get ready for our big conference in Chicago in June. We’re also bidding a fond farewell to a...
The 24,000-member Oregon Nurses Association has elected a slate of reform candidates to statewide leadership positions. The Caucus for Powerful Reform (CPR) won 15 out of the 21 seats it ran for, incl...
Fortunes of the country’s 22 billionaires doubled in last five years, reaching unprecedented collective wealth of $219bn Scrunched between luxury apartment buildings and a lush gated community, the ne...
Bad actors have treated equality as a zero sum game, with women falsely portrayed as ‘winning’. Feeling they have to compete, young men are lashing out Last week, results from a global survey signalle...
Treatments continue to improve. The challenge now facing ministers is hugely unequal outcomes New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compare...
Exclusive: Watchdog finds sharp rise in number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings and extractions Almost a third of people in England now use private dentistry, with a sharp rise in the n...
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Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the wo...
Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.
Employers steal an estimated $50 billion per year from workers through wage theft — more than all property crimes in America combined. Yet it's workers, not executives, who face consequences.
100 million Americans carry medical debt while health insurance company CEOs take home tens of millions per year. The system isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed for the people at the top.
Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.
A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.
ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.