Faculty at the state-run Rutgers University in New Jersey have entered their fifth day of a historic strike — the first faculty strike in the school’s 257-year history. Organizers of three unions, representing more than 9,000 professors, lecturers and graduate assistants, are demanding increased pay and better job security, especially for poorly paid graduate workers and adjunct faculty.
President Biden was in Ireland this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the U.S.-brokered peace deal that ended three decades of fighting in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles.
We look at the state of abortion access in the United States with The Nation’s Amy Littlefield as the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on a ruling set to take effect Saturday that effectively overrides the Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the medication abortion pill mifepristone. Her most recent piece is headlined “A Conservative Christian Judge Rules Against Medication Abortion.
Advocates have long demanded data privacy improvements as doctors and patients fear prosecution post-Roe.
People with already high risk for HIV could lose access to free PrEP and testing.
The ramifications from Friday’s decision for the FDA and the drug industry could be felt for decades.
The most influential media company in America is about to be tested like never before.
The government may classify too much intelligence, but that doesn’t mean a low-level employee should be able to see it.
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
We look more at what recently leaked Pentagon documents reveal about the war in Ukraine, and U.S. spying on both its adversaries and its allies, including Israel. In Part 2 of our interview with James Bamford, the longtime investigative journalist discusses how the leaks challenge the corporate media’s portrayal of the war in Ukraine, and more. Bamford’s latest book is Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence.
Democrats and Republicans alike condemned the Georgia Republican’s latest hot take.
“Stop using God to justify your bigotry. Stop using God to justify hatred and racism,” state Rep. Justin Jones told his Republican colleague.
The recent deaths of Gershun Freeman and Irvo Otieno come amid a push to remove officers from handling crisis intervention.
Lawmakers promised behind closed doors to hammer out a compromise between supporters and opponents of the bill before it’s passed.
Miguel Vega, 32, and Christopher Hernandez, 37, are accused of detaining a 23-year-old skateboarder in 2020 without cause and then covering up the man’s detention.
The Florida governor signs a six-week abortion ban that could hurt his White House aspirations.
Here’s a look at the 5th Circuit’s decision and what happens next.
President Biden has declared an end to the COVID-19 national emergency, but people living with long COVID say the pandemic is far from over. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found nearly one in five people infected with COVID-19 go on to experience symptoms of long COVID. We speak to science writer Ryan Prior about the movement to expand research and resources for those with long COVID, and his own experience living with the chronic illness.
We discuss the debate over gun control, as well as Republican attacks on democracy, with author and academic Carol Anderson, who says U.S. gun culture has always been connected to “the inherent, fundamental fear of Black people.
As the world watched, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to reappoint Justin Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, less than a week after the Republican-led House voted to expel him and fellow state Representative Justin Jones from the body for joining peaceful protests against gun violence after the school massacre in Nashville. Pearson and Jones were the two youngest Black lawmakers in the Tennessee House.
People with already high risk for HIV could lose access to free PrEP and testing.
The ramifications from Friday’s decision for the FDA and the drug industry could be felt for decades.
Victim advocates were caught off guard by the news.
“What you saw by that one judge in that one court in that one state — that’s not America,” Xavier Becerra said.
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
