Tax Day Injustice
As Americans prepare their tax returns ahead of the IRS’s annual filing deadline, a new report—“More for Them, Less for Us: Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam”—highlights how...
View ArticleEVs Could Meet Biden Climate Goals—Just Not Chinese Ones
Last week, the Biden administration announced the strictest-ever rule regulating tailpipe emissions, one of the most significant sources of carbon emissions in the United States. But the rule was...
View ArticleImagining a More Just Climate Future
When we think about climate change, we often think in terms of statistics, studies, and measurements of melting glaciers, dwindling wildlife populations, and mass human migration. It’s a grim reality....
View ArticleThe Resurgence of a Palestinian Protest Song
Actor Ramy Youssef recently said the words “Free Palestine” on live television as part of his Saturday Night Live monologue. And Oscar-winning film director Jonathan Glazer used his acceptance speech...
View ArticleActivists Organize Gaza “Freedom Flotilla”
It has been six months since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began. The death toll has surpassed 33,000 and Israeli violations continue to mount. Human Rights Watch just released a report accusing Israel of...
View ArticleHaitians Hope for a New Chapter
Weeks of chaos and violence in Haiti may be coming to an end as an agreement for a transitional government is drawn up this week. Haiti’s political parties and numerous stakeholder civil society...
View ArticleMaking Arab American Heritage Month Meaningful
April is Arab American Heritage month, a time of year aimed at celebrating the history and culture of Americans who claim ancestry from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Such recognition was...
View ArticleWhy Are Elite Schools So Attached to the SAT?
Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology recently announced they would return to requiring SAT and ACT test scores as part of their admissions processes, joining several other...
View ArticleBhopal Survivors Continue 40-Year Fight for Justice
This year marks 40 years since the world’s worst industrial disaster claimed the lives of thousands of people, and continues to impact more than half a million. Justice remains elusive for the...
View ArticleInside the Campus Uprising for Palestine
College campuses across the United States have become sites of mass protest actions against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. They include Columbia University, New York University, Harvard, and Yale....
View ArticleUAW Makes History at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) in a historic win for organized labor. The German automaker’s Chattanooga plant was...
View ArticleCan Arizona Win Back the Right to an Abortion?
In early April, the Arizona Supreme Court restored a Civil War–era law banning abortions in all cases except when the life of the biological parent was in jeopardy. It is currently one of the most...
View ArticleStudents Speak Out From Free Gaza Encampment
An uprising led by college students around the United States is demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the ongoing occupation of Palestine, and U.S. arms shipments to Israel. Also central to...
View ArticleJewish Students Central to Free Gaza Campus Protests
As university students continue to hold their ground at Free Gaza encampments on campuses around the nation, Jewish students remain central to the movement. In January 2024, Elez Beresin-Scher, a...
View ArticleFacing Life Without Parole Inside a California Prison
California imprisons nearly 200,000 people in various types of detention centers, including prisons and jails. If California was a country, it would have one of the highest rates of incarceration in...
View ArticleInside a Free Gaza Campus Hub
Southern California has been a hub of student-led protests against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As activists at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern...
View ArticleUCLA Faculty Defend Student Activists
Just as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) began resuming classes after a week of violent attacks on students from vigilantes and law enforcement, police arrested 43 people in a campus...
View ArticleMaking Childcare Sustainable for Parents and Providers
Thousands of childcare workers walked off their jobs the day after Mother’s Day for the national Day Without Child Care. The action on May 13, 2024, was the third annual commemoration of a day...
View ArticleUnderstanding Gen Z Voters
The campus protests that swept the nation in recent weeks are as clear a sign as any that young people are politically aware, active, and willing to put their bodies on the line for their beliefs. But...
View ArticleHow Black Mothers Organize Against Police Violence
For Our Children, a new documentary released by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY ahead of the fourth anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd, highlights how Black mothers cope with the most unimaginable...
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