Opponent of stop-and-frisk fears for her son
"I think about the humiliation these young men go through, being stopped and frisked, and ask myself, 'When will it be my son's first time?'"
A year after Chevron explosion, the grassroots mobilizes
A protest grew to 3,000 once it reached the gates of the Chevron refinery, and 209 were subsequently arrested in a sit-down act of non-violent civil disobedience.
Idaho natives face off against tar sands disruption
The problem? The truck was illegally advancing through tribal lands and a federally-protected river area.
Counseling center shutdown teaches important health care lessons
A right-wing governor has used an unreliable study and nonexistent federal requirements to replace local, community-based, nonprofit health care providers with out-of-state for-profit companies.
Rosanell Eaton, 92, sues North Carolina for taking her vote
By signing the new law, the Republican governor replaced one of the best voting laws in the country with one that is arguably now the worst.
Arizona mural dramatizes killings by border agents
"Mother Demands Justice" was the theme of a press conference and protest at the unveiling of a large public mural in downtown Tucson commemorating the murder of a Mexican teen.
Clergy call for end to torture in California prisons (with video)
In a groundbreaking report to the UN Human Rights Council, Juan Méndez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, found that solitary confinement can amount to cruel, inhuman punishment - and even torture.
Thousands shut down Chicago streets at ALEC meeting
The demonstrators say ALEC is hurting just about everyone in America who is not part of the top one percent.
The White House and “Cold War mentality”
President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."
The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
