Texas Voter Suppression Is Keeping Climate Action by the State Off the Table
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global network of news outlets that focuses on the climate story. For Alán de León, Natural disasters are a part of daily life. Growing up in Houston, de León knew that late summer meant hurricane season, a time when his family took special care to save […]
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Their Medical Bills Were Getting Too High in US, So They Went to Mexico for Care
The Fierro Family of Yuma in Arizona had bad luck beginning in December 2020. That’s when Jesús Fierro Sr. was admitted to the hospital with a serious covid-19 infection. He spent 18 days in Yuma Regional Medical Center and lost 60 pounds. He returned home weak and dependent on oxygen tanks. Claudia, his wife fainted […]
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Doctors Tie Jump in Border-Related Death and Injuries to Trump’s Raising of Wall
Doctors in Southern California are connecting former President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that “can’t be climbed” with soaring rates of serious injuries and deaths among migrants. In a research note, seven University of California, San Diego physicians shared new statistics and observations regarding local trauma cases. publishedFriday in the journal […]
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Why Did Oakland Decide to Shut Down Popular Community Schools?
Oakland, California school district touts itself as the nation’s first full-service community schools district, committing to a model of school improvement that, according to the model’s most prominent proponents, provides students with “well-rounded educational opportunities” and the “supports” they need to be successful. According to, community schools address the basic needs in the communities they […]
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On May Day, Let’s Link the Rising Labor Revolts to Community Struggles
Despite the backlash against progressives in the U.S. and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I choose to be optimistic this May Day 2022. We have much to celebrate this year, including the recent organizing victory of the Amazon workers in New York and the union drives of Starbucks’ workers around the country that succeeded in […]
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Supreme Court Seems Torn on Whether Biden Can End Trump’s Inhumane Asylum Policy
Shortly after taking office, Joe Biden sought to cancel the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy (formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP). Asylum seekers who leave a third-country and travel through Mexico to the U.S. border must stay in Mexico while they await a court hearing on their asylum petitions. Many of the […]
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Musk’s “Dangerous” Twitter Offer Makes the Case for a Wealth Tax, Warren Says
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.Massachusetts), warns that Elon Musk is attempting to buy Twitter for $44 billion. In an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, Warren said that Musk’s offer to buy Twitter, which Twitter agreed to earlier this week, makes the case that the country needs to “make two big changes” to its tax code and […]
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Back Union Movement Now or Face Defeat This Fall
A new interview with Vanity FairSenator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), warned Democrats to publicly support the growing labor movement or face defeat in the midterm elections. Sanders said that the Democratic party is in dire need messaging since the unceremonious demise of the Build Back better Act last year. They must embrace a strong prounion platform […]
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COVID Vaccines for Kids Under 5 Could be Available in June, FDA Official Says
An official with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that coronavirus vaccines for children under the age of 5 will be considered — and likely approved — as soon as June. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, suggested that the vaccines will be available shortly in an […]
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Children’s Book Authors Are Fighting Back Against Censorship and Book Bans
The right wing continues to ban books, promote censorship, and writers, publishers, and free speech activists are taking steps to provide anti-racist, pro-LGBTQIA+ materials for educators and caregivers. “Most U.S. teachers have not been trained to discuss white settler colonialism, white supremacy or race,” says Oriel Maria Siu, author of Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It’s […]
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