When the Rev. Dr. William Barber II saw that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the first to eulogize the late John Lewis as he lay in state inside the Capitol rotunda on July 27th, the civil rights leader thought of Jesus admonishing the Pharisees. “We love the tombs of …
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This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis released a report that it has been working on since January 2019. With Republicans in control of the Senate and President Trump in …
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This all-access, dig-in-and-dig-deep documentary from Rachel Lears and co-writer Robin Blotnick concerns the 2018 primary campaigns of four progressive, grassroots, insurrectionist, female Democrats: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a waitress/bartender from New York who is forced to work double shifts to save her family home from foreclosure. Amy Vilela is a Nevada …
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To a certain segment of the American population – those who have spent the past 336 days (but who’s counting?) dreaming of the end of the Donald Trump presidency – the two words that have given them the most hope have been “Mueller” and “emoluments.” Almost everyone knows that the …
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On Sunday night in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire on a concert across from his 32nd-floor hotel room, killing at least 58 people and injuring 515. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, at least for now. (The last tragedy held that distinction for a little …
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