In a new book by Ralph Nader, the people take back power from the elite. Yes, it's a fable, but we will survive only if it becomes reality.
In this repost from 2014, Chris Hedges looks at a tragic deadlock that remains mostly unchanged today.
Those attending the "Liberty or Death" rally to oppose a gun control initiative are met by opposing groups outside City Hall. Three arrests are reported among counterprotesters, and there was one reported injury.
An incident involving writer Peter Beinart, who was stopped at the airport in Jerusalem, is the third in three weeks.
Two years after the media left, hundreds of "water protectors" who participated in protests over the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota struggle to rebuild their lives.
Nearly three dozen defendants, who have been tried in groups, are exonerated following a number of failures by prosecutors to prove them guilty.
Americans who are rightfully outraged with Trump and his administration’s injustices have every right to nonviolently protest and show their dissent.
Truthdig reports on the final week of the Poor People's Campaign, an effort to relaunch Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight against poverty, war and income inequality.
The Rahm Emanuel administration has continued the city's long, troubled history of snooping on groups exercising their First Amendment rights—and now state legislators want to let it use drones.
Corporate media are not covering the fight for America's soul, but the establishment will not be able ignore the growing community that is leading it much longer.
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