This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s been nearly eight years since Congress reauthorized the farm bill, the massive legislative package that funds programs run by the US Department of Agriculture. What used to be passed roughly every five years, the farm bill touches nearly every aspect of […]
Two years ago, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old sociology graduate student at the City University of New York, was sitting in a tent on Columbia University’s quad as part of the pro-Palestine encampment on its campus. This month, Chevalier, the daughter of a truck driver and a case worker from the Dominican Republic, soundly defeated […]
In an interview with Fox News, Oz attempted to explain how rife fraud is among Obamacare recipients when he launched into a diatribe over how “40% of the people ostensibly signed up never use it.”
Joshua Scheer As right-wing governments regain ground across Latin America, grassroots movements are warning that the region is entering a new phase of political confrontation. Following years of progressive victories known as the “Pink Tide,” conservative forces—often backed by economic pressure, foreign intervention, and elite political networks—are reclaiming power in countries such as Colombia and […]
The far-right justices just gave Trump a power that King George III would have loved, while Colorado gets ready for primaries that could put another young democratic socialist on the path to Congress.