The EPA's proposed rollback of Biden-era PFAS drinking water limits doesn't dispute the science linking forever chemicals to cancer. It simply removes the legal requirement to act on that science — and the industry that spent decades causing the contamination spent years lobbying for exactly this ou
In Houston's most polluted and most heavily immigrant neighborhoods, ICE raids, chemical spills, catastrophic floods, and an inaccessible healthcare system have converged into a single, compounding crisis. For hundreds of thousands of residents, survival mode has become the permanent condition — by
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also up there. While there’s a lot of competit
Qualified immunity is a Supreme Court-created doctrine that shields police officers from civil lawsuits even when they violate constitutional rights — unless the victim can find a prior case with nearly identical facts.
Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay active player, has died at 47. Twelve years after his historic coming out, not one active male player in the four major North American professional leagues has followed — and the institutions that celebrated him have done little to change the conditions that
A decade after Standing Rock, nine Sioux Nation groups have halted a graphite drilling project near a recognized ceremonial site using proactive litigation — a legal strategy that pipeline opponents in the same state are now studying closely.
The term 'food desert' suggests a natural void. Food apartheid names the system that created it — and identifies who profits from keeping it in place.
OpenAI detected the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account, suspended it, and then decided — by its own internal standard, reviewed by no one — that the threat didn't require a call to police. Eight people died. The real failure isn't the calibration. It's that a private company was making this call at all
From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition Zappa Montag steps outside his home to a thicket of redwoods, Pacific madrones and oak trees. Dozens of fruit trees dot the 76 hectares (189 acres), along with a large garden replete with squash, cu
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
Environmental racism describes how pollution and toxic waste are systematically concentrated in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities — a pattern created by policy, not accident.
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.
Community organizations in Oakland's Latino neighborhoods built hospital-based violence intervention programs with documented results. Federal funding cuts are now forcing them to scale back — a policy choice whose consequences are not speculative.
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.