Search Results

1,127 results
  1. Eight Men Now Own the Same as the Poorest Half of the World Participants attend a meeting on the theme "Monetary Policy: Where Will Things Land?" on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017 in Davos. The global elite begin a week of earnest debate and Alpine partying in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … It’s Davos this week, which means it’s time for Oxfam’s latest global ‘killer fact’ on extreme inequality. Since our first calculation in 2014, these have helped get inequality onto the agenda of the global leaders assembled in Switzerland. This year, Continue reading
  2. The Great Flood A submerged mobile home community stands in Fort Myers on Sept. 12, 2017, two days after Hurricane Irma swept through the area. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk Continue reading
  3. Cops, Gun Culture and Anti-Government Extremism On Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, Police Chief Tim George, left, and officers work at the scene of a police shooting in Medford, Ore. Police say officers shot and killed a man on a neighborhood street after the man fired a shotgun at police. (AP Photo/The Mail Tribune, Bob Pennell)
    8 Aug 2014 … That they're policing a country with more guns than any other doesn't excuse brutal policing, but it helps explain cops' mindset. Continue reading
  4. Justice After Charleston Charleston
    6 Jun 2015 … If we want to honor the memory of the Emanuel martyrs, we must continue their struggle for transformative action. Continue reading
  5. A Cruel New Bill Is About to Become Law in Mississippi Volunteers serve breakfast at the Seashore Mission, which offers services to the homeless and those in need on Jan. 3, 2016 in Biloxi, Mississippi. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2017 … This post originally appeared at The Nation. Had the Ryan-Trump health care bill been signed into law, 24 million people could have lost their health care — and Donald Trump would have received a $2.18 million annual tax cut. Fortunately, Continue reading
  6. Low Wage Employers Cost American Families a Quarter Trillion Dollars
    10 Oct 2013 … A new study says half of fast food workers are on public assistance programs that spend $243 billion each year on the working poor. Continue reading
  7. Maya Lin: Designer of Memorials Maya Lin
    3 Mar 2003 … Sculptor, architect, and designer Maya Lin catapulted to prominence when, as a senior at Yale University, she was chosen to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Bill Moyers talks with her about her upbringing and multifaceted career. Continue reading
  8. Can This Berniecrat Congressman Win Silicon Valley Over to His Progressive Agenda? Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) speaks with Roll Call in his office on June, 29, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    6 Jun 2017 … On an unseasonably warm day in June, Silicon Valley’s newest member of Congress held a town hall meeting in the gym of Milpitas High School — home of the Trojans. It was an apt venue for US Rep. Ro Khanna, Continue reading
  9. America’s Most Segregated Schools Aren’t Where You’d Think They’d Be Adofo Muhammad, center, principal of Bedford Academy High School, teaches 10th and 11th graders in his Global Studies class in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
    3 Mar 2014 … A new report says that for decades, New York State schools have been more segregated for blacks than any Southern state. Continue reading
  10. Mitt Romney Has a Koch Problem
    1 Jan 2015 … Why didn't Romney get an invite to the Koch brothers' donor retreat this weekend? Continue reading