With the news Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will step down as Democratic Party leader next term but remain in Congress, I wanted to share an excerpt...
When Yamina Saheb started work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2019, she was stunned at the treatment meted out to researchers from...
On election night in Los Angeles last week, as it became clear that Kenneth Mejia, a 32-year-old activist and accountant, had been elected the city’s...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has hotlined a bill that would redistribute almost $3 billion to the families of victims of 9/11 that had initially been...
$30,000 at Detroit’s Greektown Casino, restaurant tabs approaching $7,000, top shelf cigars, Louis Roederer Cristal champagne, firearms, a $1 million lake...
For three weeks this fall, Israeli forces closed all roads leading in and out of Nablus, a Palestinian city of 170,000 people and the economic hub of the...
In 2019, Ajay Kumar, an asylum-seeker from India, began a hunger strike while in ICE detention to demand his release. In response, the U.S. government force...
In a contentious Monday caucus meeting of Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff blessed a Judiciary...
Murray Hooper just needs more time. He says this over and over again, with an urgency bordering on despair. He is six days away from execution and not ready to...
Warning: This article contains graphic accounts of force-feeding. Ajay Kumar set out from India in June 2018, eventually ending up at the U.S. border in...