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Railroad workers inspect tracks as they repair a section of Union Pacific train tracks after a train derailed from the tracks, which are littered with thousands of opened boxes and packages stolen from cargo shipping containers in downtown Los Angeles, California, on January 16, 2022.

Economy and Inequality

Corporate billionaires are wrecking the supply chain. Just look at the railroads.

by Mel Buer July 7, 2022July 7, 2022

Millie Wahl stands in solidarity with the "Native Nations Rise" march on Washington, DC, against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Portland, Oregon, on March 10, 2017.

The feds are using terrorism charges against water protectors

by Frances Madeson July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

A woman works at a distribution station at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on Feb. 5, 2019.

Economy and Inequality

A pro-union worker asked Amazon for injury accommodations. Amazon fired her.

by Maximillian Alvarez July 6, 2022July 7, 2022

Demonstrators protest in front of the US Supreme Court moments before the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling on June 24, 2022, in Washington, DC.

Naomi Klein: US in the midst of a ‘shock-and-awe judicial coup’

by Jake Johnson July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

Community activists and parents block a group of Proud Boys from disrupting a Pride storytime event at the McKinney Public library in McKinney, Texas, on June 25, 2022.

Politics and Movements: US

Texan parents face down Proud Boys at library Pride event

by Steven Monacelli June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

Police use tear gas around the US Capitol building as pro-Trump supporters riot and storm the building on Jan 6, 2021.

Politics and Movements: US

How America’s broken electoral system made the Jan 6 insurrection possible

by Jaisal Noor and Maximillian Alvarez June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

Registered nurse Carmen Verano wipes her CAPR helmet after attending a Covid-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, on December 18, 2020.

Politics and Movements: US

Frontline physicians in LA can’t pay rent, so they threatened to strike

by Maximillian Alvarez June 29, 2022July 1, 2022

A bird sits atop an un-scalable fence that stands around the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2022.

Politics and Movements: US

This Supreme Court is Constitutionally illegitimate—and everyone knows it

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes June 28, 2022June 28, 2022

Anti-abortion campaigners celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022.

Politics and Movements: US

Yes, the death of Roe is ‘that bad’

by Molly Shah June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

Maria Martinez (left) stands in the kitchen with her 23-year-old son Ricardo Martinez (right) talking to Roberto Garcia-Ceballos (reflected in the doorway) from the Community Power Collective, an organization fighting to help tenants as they face eviction from the 50-unit Tokio Hotel apartments located at 1013½ S Central Ave in downtown Los Angeles, California, on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021

Economy and Inequality

Renters are being fleeced with huge rent hikes and evictions—and it’s only getting worse

by Michael Sainato June 23, 2022June 24, 2022