Charlie Hope D’Anieri / Barn RaiserIn deep red Iowa, voters are overwhelmingly supporting candidates who prioritize clean water and stricter regulations on pesticide use and nitrate runoff from industrial farms.Environment
Partido Lakas ng Masa / LINKSIf we're going to prevent the next ecological disaster, we must transition to a global economy of ecosocialism.Ear to the Ground
John P. Ruehl / IMIThe Trump administration is part of an international trend of business elites entering government and using commercial relationships as tools of diplomacy and geopolitical influence.
Nancy J. Altman / RoutledgeA new book analyzes the dysfunction of the current system and argues healthcare should be available to everyone in America as a right — automatic and free of charge when we need it.Africa
Stacy Malkan / USRTKThe philanthropist promised a biotech-fueled productivity boom for farmers, but the data shows sluggish yields and rising hunger. Where is the accountability?
Sarah Anderson / Inequality.orgExecutives at the most profitable companies have enriched themselves while staying silent about ICE attacks on their employees and the shredding of our social safety net.Film
Alex Demyanenko / Capital & MainWhile the Trump administration attacks workers’ rights, here are some of the most influential films about labor from the last 50 years.Ear to the Ground
Bob Berwyn / Inside Climate NewsWe failed to prevent 1.5 degrees of warming, but there is still a choice between doing nothing and allowing warming to continue, say the authors of a new U.N. study.Technology
Evan Simon / FloodlightThermal drone imaging shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne complex in New Jersey is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators.
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Politics
In deep red Iowa, voters are overwhelmingly supporting candidates who prioritize clean water and stricter regulations on pesticide use and nitrate runoff from industrial farms.
Environment
If we're going to prevent the next ecological disaster, we must transition to a global economy of ecosocialism.
Ear to the Ground
The feminist icon leaves a complicated legacy and trust in the next generation of activists.
Politics
The Trump administration is part of an international trend of business elites entering government and using commercial relationships as tools of diplomacy and geopolitical influence.
Health & Wellness
A new book analyzes the dysfunction of the current system and argues healthcare should be available to everyone in America as a right — automatic and free of charge when we need it.
Africa
The philanthropist promised a biotech-fueled productivity boom for farmers, but the data shows sluggish yields and rising hunger. Where is the accountability?
Books
What a history of the 1960s can teach us about cross-racial organizing in an authoritarian age.
Labor
Executives at the most profitable companies have enriched themselves while staying silent about ICE attacks on their employees and the shredding of our social safety net.
Film
While the Trump administration attacks workers’ rights, here are some of the most influential films about labor from the last 50 years.
Ear to the Ground
The president sees public land as another moneymaking opportunity.
Middle East
Trump’s illegal, unauthorized, unnecessary war is the worst strategic defeat in U.S. history.
Environment
We failed to prevent 1.5 degrees of warming, but there is still a choice between doing nothing and allowing warming to continue, say the authors of a new U.N. study.
Technology
Thermal drone imaging shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne complex in New Jersey is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators.