As federal social spending shrinks and war budgets grow, residents in at least 10 states are organizing ballot campaigns and legislative pushes to tax billionaire wealth for schools, hospitals, and food programs. They're routing around Congress because Congress won't act.
The White House declared it had dismantled a $400 billion clean energy loan program. But the Inflation Reduction Act was designed to survive political attacks — and billions in funding are still flowing to renewable projects.
OpenAI's retreat from adult content follows a century-old pattern: tech companies exploit sex work for innovation, then abandon the industry for respectability while keeping the profits.
Two years after a fatal mine explosion, Alabama's coal safety commission is now chaired by a coal executive. Residents call it regulatory capture with a body count.
The emergence of cychlorphine proves prohibition doesn't stop drug use — it forces underground chemists to create increasingly dangerous compounds that evade each new restriction.
Mildred Danis-Taylor confronted DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over her husband's 14-month detention at Stewart, where the double amputee faces conditions that violate federal disability law.
Sanders and AOC propose an 18-month freeze on AI datacenter construction as facilities consuming city-scale electricity threaten to overwhelm America's power grid.
As ICE raids turn immigrant families into prisoners in their own homes, 130 Memphis residents have built an underground food delivery network — exposing how federal immigration enforcement creates humanitarian disasters in American neighborhoods.
Philosophy professor Idris Robinson is suing Texas State after the university terminated his contract following a pro-Israel social media campaign that targeted him for an off-campus talk about Palestine.
The UN documents an 81% collapse in migratory freshwater fish — the steepest wildlife decline on record — while governments continue subsidizing the dams and industrial agriculture driving this mass extinction.
Florida's Board of Governors voted to remove Introduction to Sociology as a graduation requirement at all state universities, targeting the discipline that teaches students to analyze power structures and social inequality.
New drilling data from Antarctica reveals ice sheet collapse is already locked in, exposing a dangerous gap between climate science and policy frameworks still built around prevention.
ICE and other federal agencies are purchasing detailed location and browsing data from commercial brokers to track people without warrants, turning the advertising industry's surveillance infrastructure into a tool of state power that bypasses Fourth Amendment protections.
ProPublica investigation reveals Florida hospitals used judges to force surgical births on women who wanted vaginal delivery — even when the medical justification was contested.
U.S. military escalation in Iran has severed LNG supply chains across Asia, forcing countries to reactivate coal plants and abandon climate commitments — an environmental catastrophe driven by American foreign policy.
The IOC will require genetic testing for all women competitors at the 2028 Games — using trans athlete exclusion to justify invasive biological surveillance of every female Olympian.