Rutgers University has voted to begin divesting from fossil fuels, following a campaign by the student-organized Endowment Justice Collective that grew out of the Global Climate Strike in 2019. The organizing efforts led to a referendum vote in 2020 in which 90% of students supported divestment. About 5% of Rutgers’s $1.
The president’s speech included a line that’s hard to imagine coming from his predecessor.
“It’s pretty much definitive” that the storming of the Capitol would not have happened without Trump’s speech, Christopher Miller said in a Vice interview.
The far-right member of Congress justified her widely panned actions as a voter mandate.
“I need every American to do their part,” the president said during his first prime-time address.
Even during a pandemic with high unemployment, Republicans are still mad about the estate tax.
The United States and other wealthy members of the World Trade Organization have blocked a push by dozens of developing countries to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations. The proposal by South Africa and India was supported by hundreds of civil society organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and Amnesty International. Without the waiver, vaccine production will remain in the hands of only a few pharmaceutical companies.
The Biden administration is struggling to address the flow of migrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents, many fleeing extreme violence, poverty and natural disasters in their home countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. News reports show more than 3,500 children were detained at the border in just the first nine days of March, with many being held longer than the legal limit of 72 hours. “We can call it a crisis.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been cleared to run for office again after a judge annulled all convictions against him. Three years ago, Lula, a former union leader who served as president from 2003 to 2010, had been considered a favorite in the lead-up to the 2018 presidential election until he was jailed and forced out of the race on what many said were trumped-up corruption charges.
Fifty years ago, on March 8, 1971, a group of eight activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era when they broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found. The activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, began leaking shocking details about FBI abuses to the media.
The 8,000 Texans who use Medicaid at Planned Parenthood will have to find new providers during a global pandemic.
Del. Stacey Plaskett unleashed on Rep. Glenn Grothman after he said the anti-racism movement “doesn’t like the old-fashioned family.
Mississippi’s Sen. Roger Wicker tweeted about how the legislation would help independent restaurants — even though every Republican voted against it.
The $1.9 trillion bill is overwhelmingly popular. But its ultimate success will depend on government agencies tasked with executing several large relief programs.
Online researchers have compiled a massive trove of evidence about the Capitol attack and are organizing it on their website, Jan6evidence.com.
Rutgers University has voted to begin divesting from fossil fuels, following a campaign by the student-organized Endowment Justice Collective that grew out of the Global Climate Strike in 2019. The organizing efforts led to a referendum vote in 2020 in which 90% of students supported divestment. About 5% of Rutgers’s $1.
The prominent scholar and activist Cornel West has announced he is leaving Harvard Divinity School after he was denied consideration for tenure, and will rejoin the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he started his teaching career more than 40 years ago. West had left Harvard once before in 2002 and returned to a nontenured position at Harvard in 2017.
As President Joe Biden prepares to sign the sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID relief package into law, we speak with economist Stephanie Kelton, author of “The Deficit Myth,” about how the bill could help cut child poverty in half and provide a historic economic boost to the poorest people in the United States.
A new feature film, “The Mauritanian,” tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held without charge for 14 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo and repeatedly tortured. We speak with Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who says the film is not just about his struggle. “This is not my movie. This is the movie of so many people,” he says. “Some of the people who were kidnapped after 9/11 were tortured to death.
“Please don’t patronize me by telling me that the oil and gas industry doesn’t have any special tax provisions,” the California Democrat told the company chief.
The unnamed aide claimed the New York governor inappropriately touched her late last year at the governor’s mansion, the Times Union reported.
The Ohio Democrat implored Republicans to stop with the culture war and “start working with us” to pass legislation to help Americans.
The legislation prohibits abortion in the state unless a pregnancy poses a risk to the mother’s life. A legal challenge to the bill is virtually certain.
The portraits were removed from the White House’s grand foyer during the Trump administration and relegated to a little-used room, far from Trump’s sight.
Fifty years ago, on March 8, 1971, a group of eight activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era when they broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found. The activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, began leaking shocking details about FBI abuses to the media.
Texas is the largest state to lift its mandate on face masks and fully reopen businesses, joining a growing movement in states governed by Republicans to ease pandemic restrictions even as experts warn it is too soon to do so, despite the accelerating pace of vaccinations in the United States. “This is completely politically motivated,” says Dr.
The murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter for killing George Floyd, is proceeding to jury selection despite an order from an appeals court judge that a third-degree murder charge be considered, as well. We speak with Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and racial justice activist, who says that if the trial proceeds, who serves on the jury could prove crucial in the case.
Outrage over police brutality and the mass incarceration of Black and Brown people has generated calls to defund and abolish the police.
The former president’s onetime hometown didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
The Republican Party’s top lawyer says the First Amendment gives it the right to use the former president’s name in its fundraising appeals.