Activism
- April 1, 2014The Kochs are meddling in local elections today in Wisconsin, while communities across the state will vote to get money out of politics.
- March 26, 2014Parents, students and teachers all over the country have joined the revolt to liberate our kids from a test-obsessed education system.
- March 11, 2014"Sometimes the right thing to do in ordinary times is exactly the wrong thing to do in extraordinary times."
- March 9, 2014After struggling for weeks to comply with the Texas anti-choice law, the last abortion clinics of East Texas and the Rio Grande Valley are closing.
- March 6, 2014A new citizen science project launched by the University of Oxford will probe whether global warming led to massive floods in the UK this winter.
- March 4, 2014About a thousand students gathered outside the White House over the weekend, some submitting to arrest, to urge President Obama to reject the controversial oil pipeline.
- March 3, 2014The North Carolina group is mobilizing the Jewish minority across the state to join the Moral Mondays campaign to challenge the Republican takeover of the legislature.
- February 27, 2014Even as most Americans have figured out that they do not like the tea party, its clout has grown in Washington and state capitals, writes Theda Skocpol.
- February 24, 2014Government officials and city planners are beginning to see the low-cost option as one viable solution for addressing homelessness.
- February 19, 2014A new viral video with actors Bill Nighy and Andrew Lincoln of The Walking Dead is one more setback for Wall Street lobbyists fighting a financial transaction tax.