“This Is My Home”: Meet the Lead Plaintiff in the Supreme Court Case to Save DACA
“[Last] Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from three lawsuits demanding the Trump administration preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. The Obama-era program has...
“Seattle Is Not For Sale”: Voters Re-elect Socialist Kshama Sawant
“In Seattle, Socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has been re-elected in a race that pitted her against Amazon — Seattle’s largest private employer and one of the most powerful...
Did the Cops Frame Death Row Prisoner Rodney Reed for Murder?
“For 20 years, Rodney Reed, an African-American man, has been fighting his conviction and proclaiming his innocence for the 1996 rape and murder of a 19-year-old white woman, Stacey Stites....
Housing Prices Are on The Rise in California — And So Is Homelessness
“Homelessness in San Francisco has spiked at least 30% since 2017. In Oakland, it’s grown by nearly 50%. As more people have been forced onto the streets, encampments have popped up from Los...
Chicago Teachers Celebrate End of Historic Strike After 11 Days
“Teachers in Chicago are heading back to school Friday, marking the end of a historic eleven-day strike that had shut down the nation’s third-largest school district. After weeks of tense...
PBS Film “Decade of Fire” Investigates 1970s Fires That Displaced Thousands
“The new documentary “Decade of Fire” looks back at the history of a crisis that unfolded in New York City in the 1970s, when the South Bronx faced a near-constant barrage of fires that...
California’s Criminalization of Growing Homeless Encampments
“In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian...
Protesters in Chile Decry Inequality Amid Military Crackdown
“In Chile, as many as eight people have died in widespread civil unrest that has brought Santiago to a standstill and sparked a violent police crackdown across the country. The protests began in...