Last month, President Joe Biden announced that America’s “military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31st.” In the time since the July 8 statement, a Taliban offensive has overrun city after city across the country. On Sunday, the militant… Read More ›
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Atlanta Poised to Approve Massive Police Training Facility Despite Public Opposition
On a recent evening in Atlanta, a group of over 100 residents gathered in the sanctuary of a local church, spaced out and wearing masks to follow pandemic precautions. “We are dealing with a very important issue tonight that the… Read More ›
Business Consultants Offer to Buy Ghostwritten Op-Eds Pressuring Arizona Senators
Public relations experts working for a mysterious client have been preparing ghostwritten opinion columns set to run in Arizona newspapers. The columns sharply warn Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to oppose civil litigation reform legislation designed to prevent… Read More ›
Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.2 trillion Senate infrastructure… Read More ›
The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week
Members of PATCO, the air traffic controllers union. All strikers were fired on the order of President Ronald Reagan on Aug. 5, 1981. Photo: Bettmann Archive Forty years ago, on August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic… Read More ›
Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Salsa Billionaire and Other Wealthy Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal
Tea Party Patriots, a major conservative organization that bills itself as one of the largest grassroots groups on the right, was in fact heavily backed by three ultra-wealthy individuals in recent years, according to internal data reviewed by The Intercept…. Read More ›
Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government to Track Drivers’ Travel Data
The Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill proposes a national test program that would allow the government to collect drivers’ data in order to charge them per-mile travel fees. The new revenue would help finance the Highway Trust Fund, which… Read More ›
The Problem Isn't Just Cuomo, It's the System That Made Him
People rally for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation in front of his Manhattan office in New York, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Photo: AP Photo/Brittainy Newman New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should have resigned or been removed from his position… Read More ›
Leaked Audio Shows Pressure to Overrule Scientists in "Hair-on-Fire" Cases
William Irwin’s supervisors had a simple request. They just wanted him, a scientist who assesses the safety of chemicals at the Environmental Protection Agency, to sign off on a report that would give a chemical the agency’s OK to enter… Read More ›
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Includes $25 Billion in Potential New Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
The Senate’s new bipartisan infrastructure bill is being sold as a down payment on addressing the climate crisis. But environmental advocates and academics are warning the proposed spending bill is full of new fossil fuel industry subsidies masked as climate solutions…. Read More ›