Efforts to Build Trust in Elections Face Thriving 2020 Election Denier Community
As 2022’s primaries approach, an unprecedented wave of public and private efforts are underway to foster trust in election operations and election officials in response to ongoing claimsDonald Trump and his supporters, which includes many officeholders, candidates, and candidates, claimed that President Joe Biden wasn’t legitimately elected. Public-facing activities include creating an election official appreciation […]
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Leaked IRS Data Show the Very Richest Pay Lower Tax Rates Than the Merely Rich
We are occasionally able to see the financial lives and finances of the ultra-rich. A pro athlete signs a huge deal, a tech CEO buys a lot of shares in his company, or a billionaire inheritor sells a Manhattan penthouse. These nuggets of information are used by the media to speculate on how much income […]
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A Survivor of Violence and Her Sibling Share How the Legal System Punishes Them
The United States does not apply self-defense laws equally and has never done so. These laws “were not designed with the lived reality of gendered intimate violence in mind because legal protection for self-defense was originally meant for property-owning white men,” writes Survived and Punished, a national coalition working towards decriminalizing survival, in a new […]
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When It Comes to Prison Education, Some Who Need It Most May Be Left Behind
Cedric Cal, 17, was incarcerated in Illinois for a natural life sentence. He had no chance of parole hearings and no possibility of being released. Maintaining his innocence, he knew he’d fight the conviction, and he applied to a prison-based college program. He wanted to learn everything he could to help his case and to […]
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How Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Rigged the 2020 Election to Defeat Trump
Mark Zuckerberg is best known for creating and leading Facebook, a company that’s made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. He has an estimated net worth of $80 billion and poured hundreds of million of his wealth into the 2020 election. Here’s the thing: You probably had no idea at the time […]
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Luxury Building Workers in New York City Authorize Strike
On Wednesday, thousands of SEIU Local 32BJ doorpersons, porters, superintendents and concierges gathered on Park Avenue in Manhattan for a rally to demand fair contracts. These essential residential workers are currently negotiating with the Real Estate Advisory Board to obtain wage increases and fully-employer-paid health insurance for themselves and their families. The workers also raised […]
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Uninsured People Are Left Behind as Government COVID-19 Funding Dries Up
This piece was originally published at Prism. After two years’ free COVID-19 vaccinations, COVID-19 test, and other resources for health care during the pandemics, the government has run out of funding. Last month, the Biden administration wrote a letter to Congress To keep funding programs running in the U.S., we asked lawmakers to contribute $22.5 […]
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Manchin Visits Alberta as Canada Ramps Up US Lobbying Amid Energy Crisis
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) visited Alberta, Canada, this week and met with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to discuss North American energy security in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The visit came as the oil-rich province has quickly expanded its U.S. outreach in an effort to advance Alberta’s energy and trade interests in America, […]
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After Undermining International Criminal Court, US Wants It to Charge Russians
The United States has attempted to undermine the International Criminal Court since 2002. However, the U.S. government now wants the ICC to bring charges against Russian leaders for war crimes committed in Ukraine. Washington believes that the ICC is trustworthy enough to try Russians, but not to bring U.S. and Israeli officials to justice. The […]
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Prison Guards in Illinois Used Prison Labor to Raise Money for Golf Tournaments
A recent investigation into the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) revealed that prison guards there have been using incarcerated individuals to wash their personal cars, give haircuts and shine shoes at fundraisers to benefit the prison staff — in other words, they have been using the labor of incarcerated people for their own personal gain. […]
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