Saru Jayaraman tried. As far back as January, the president of low-pay campaign group One Fair Wage recalls telling Democratic leaders in Washington DC that voters were worried about the cost of living.

The inability to answer that question informs the election result.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to reckon with formaldehyde have been repeatedly thwarted by the companies that rely on it. If the past is any guide, even modest steps toward reform are all but guaranteed to hit a dead end under Trump.

The FCC has long run an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The historically bipa…

The Democratic Party has embraced a cult of powerlessness — and now they’re taking down hugely popular antitrust policy along with it.

Childbirth is already unaffordable for many. Now some are being asked to pay the bill before they even go into labor.

On November 26, 2024, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced her office will resume seeking execution warrants. AG Mayes’ announcement comes...

After attacks on the trans community in the wake of the election, Riki Wilchins takes a look at the actual data.

Governor Gavin Newsom has a renewed interest in E15, a blend of ethanol and gasoline, as a means to lower fuel prices. Experts worry it may expand the far-reaching impacts of biofuels.

Federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices"

If you put cops in schools, this is what you get: On the morning of January 10, 2020, a parent complained to school officials about a sketch N.B. and other students had drawn in response to another…

By Steve Wishnia Amazon delivery drivers in Queens are demanding the company oust a union-busting firm after one of its “persuaders” repeatedly called a pro-union driver a “faggot” on Nov. 27.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.

Washington, D.C., November 21, 2024 - The National Security Archive filed suit in federal court today to contest the estimated 12-year backlog of Freedom of Information requests for presidential records held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Lax state regulations create a timber bonanza for institutional investors.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US ambassador to France, in the latest of several controversial picks.

Less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the Biden Justice Department announced it could be handing corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card, even if they have committed multiple crimes, earned significant profit from their wrongdoing, and failed to self-disclose the mi...

The Biden administration is withholding funds from the Climate Justice Alliance, a federal grantee that has spoken out about Palestine.

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

Dorian Warren argues that cynicism and disillusionment among the party's base helped Trump win.

A CDC food safety alert regarding a multistate outbreak of <em>Salmonella</em> infections has been posted at

The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls for investigations after Florida Sen. Randy Fine's threatening remarks.

With Donald Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations by Biden will stop another federal execution spree.

The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here's how.

Despite a decade-long fight, permits for a reroute threaten Wisconsin’s Bad River watershed and treaty rights.

Both states require incarcerated people to work — often for critical and dangerous jobs.

FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.

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Pressed by influential corporate advisors, Kamala Harris ran away from a winning economic populist message and ended up losing a campaign. We have the proof.

Let’s reject all settlers myths this Thanksgiving and honor Indigenous resistance.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is proposing a new rule to significantly expand coverage of anti-obesity medications for Americans with Medicare

Journalist Lee Fang has an admirable track record for exposing authoritarian tendencies within the Democratic Party and in progressive spaces. His work is

The election showed what has been clear for some time: Chinese communities are becoming a new center of conservative power.