
Lawmakers will band together to ban an app, raise their salaries or bomb Brown babies in a foreign country, but they will not lift a pen to end hunger, stop…
Lawmakers will band together to ban an app, raise their salaries or bomb Brown babies in a foreign country, but they will not lift a pen to end hunger, stop…
By Ben Jealous — Ratepayers beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export) agenda is going to raise energy…
By Ben Jealous — It is official: 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures not only surpassed 2023 as the previous hottest year, they leapt – for the first time…
By Ted Glick – *Originally posted January 8, 2025. With 10 days left to mobilize, it is clear that the People’s March, initiated by the Women’s March, is going to…
By Ben Jealous — It may be the dead of winter, but when we think about our beaches none of us want to picture them covered in oil. That is…
By Ben Jealous — The incoming Trump administration is supposedly interested in “efficiency.” It has a whole quasigovernmental department – the Elon Musk- and Vivek Ramaswamy-chaired Department of Government Efficiency…
By Dr. Michael Witter — Even more urgently than in previous USA presidential elections, the Caribbean needs to anticipate the kinds of impacts that a Trump 2024 regime following the…
By Sherrilyn Ifill — It wasn’t the Electoral College. It wasn’t gerrymandering, or even voter suppression. America was undone this week by the disease that sits in our national DNA…
By Rev. Irene Monroe — The last time I saw a huge gathering of Black men was the Million Man March in 1995. They came to the nation’s capital to…
By Ben Jealous — The state of Alabama destroyed their homes. Your federal tax dollars helped pay for it. We are checking back in on the historic Black Shiloh community in Elba,…
This column is particularly for those people who live in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada who are thinking of or planning to…
By Ben Jealous — Contamination from lead, arsenic, and the other toxins in Tar Creek in northeastern Oklahoma stole the potential of many children of the Quapaw Nation. As a parent, I can…