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Leak reveals Rex Tillerson was director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company
Documents from tax haven will raise more questions over suitability of Donald Trump’s pick for US secretary of state.

Henry A. Giroux | White Nationalism in the Oval Office and the Suppression of Dissent

New App Offers Anarchist Alternative to Calling 911

Fox in charge of the hen house: How states legalize tax fraud

Mass atrocities feared in South Sudan as ethnic violence is stoked by hunger
Amid catastrophic levels of malnutrition in South Sudan, the UN has warned of the danger of ethnic cleansing involving massacres and gang rape.

Financial conflicts of interest were found in 40 percent of published research articles on the genetically modified crops, also known as GMO crops, French researchers said this week.

Portland Bans New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Stand Against Climate Change

Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations

Electoral College: Trump Loses by Accident

Video: The Standing Rock 'Water Protectors' Who Refuse to Leave and Why

Senate Passes Landmark Animal Cruelty Bill

A Mother and Child Trapped in Obama’s Brutal Family Deportation System

California Gov. Jerry Brown Seeks Permanent Ban on Oil and Gas Drilling

Texas Begins $350 Million in Medicaid Cuts; Disabled Children Affected

In last-shot bid, thousands urge electoral college to block Trump at Monday vote

Yet Another Palestinian Teen Killed by Israeli Forces

NAACP Announces Lawsuit Against North Carolina Coup

Trump's pick for budget chief could signal major shift on Medicare, Social Security

More Than Half of Students at US Community Colleges Say They’re Hungry

Does Connecticut's Green Bank Hold the Secret to the Future of Clean Energy?

Trump’s Cabinet choices reflect deep Koch influence
A rundown of the people with ties to ALEC, the Koch brothers and federal land transfer legislation.

Millionaires the Big Winners From Repealing the Affordable Care Act, New Data Show

Donald Trump’s Uber economy: More evidence that “making America great again” is a con game

Meet Four Young Farmers Who Are Rising to the Challenge of Water Scarcity in the Western US

Barack Obama finalizes rule protecting funding for abortion clinics before Donald Trump takes office

Grand Jury Indicts 21 Doctors, Executives in Massive Conspiracy Involving Dallas Hospital
One surgeon was allegedly paid $7 million as a bribe to refer patients to the Dallas hospital.

How Standing Rock's Divest Campaign Can Stop Future Pipelines

Guilty of Grand Theft Overtime: Ruling Denies Protection to Millions of Workers

The New York Times' False Choice for Democrats: Move to the Right or Divide by Race

British Gas owner Centrica funding climate denial group linked to Trump

President Obama Keeps on Deporting Central American Teens; What Will Trump Do?

Eight-Four Percent of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture -- but Only Once They're Told What It Is

Trump's New Website Promises to Devastate Planet Earth

Larry Colburn, Who Helped Stop My Lai Massacre, Dies at 67

The Inside Story of Apple's $14 Billion Tax Bill
The iPhone came out in 2007. So why was Apple still paying taxes like it was 1990?

UK: ‘Shocking’ rise in number of homeless children in B&Bs at Christmas
Shelter says government figures of 124,000 children in temporary accommodation show that benefit cuts have made private rents unaffordable

Obama signs California’s massive water bill, but Trump will determine its future

Alabama Prosecutor Sets the Penalties and Fills the Coffers

Mexico: Ending the Neoliberal Nightmare
The “pink tide” passed by Mexico. However, the emergence of new social and political movements may represent a beacon of hope to revive the region’s Left.

The Fight For Free College Moves to the States
How student organizers and a state representative are campaigning to eliminate tuition in Illinois.

Liberté, Egalité, Féminisme?
A new generation of minority and Muslim women are taking the lead in the fight against racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration, and a general crackdown on civil liberties in France.

With Oil Sands Ambitions on a Collision Course With Climate Change, Exxon Still Stepping on the Gas
Despite understanding environmental risks, the company and Canada remain committed to extracting and exporting Alberta’s carbon-heavy fuel source.

Group headed by Trump's Israel envoy pick sued for war crimes

Boone, North Carolina, Passes Historic Resolution: Ditch Fossil Fuels, Go 100 Percent Clean Energy

North Carolinians Revolt Over Republicans' Brazen Post-Election Coup

US Ruled by 9-Headed Monarch: What We Didn’t Learn in School About the Supreme Court

Fracking giant fails to lock up a grandmother

The Hamilton Electors don’t have enough Republicans to stop Trump -- but they’re getting there

Trans people are risking their lives in Istanbul

Happy 29th Birthday, Chelsea Manning

Trump picks budget 'hawk' Mick Mulvaney to lead budget office
South Carolina Republican, known for wish to cut federal spending, poised to lead Office of Management and Budget and says he will ‘restore fiscal sanity’

Michael Moore: North Carolina offers 'a coming attraction' of how GOP will govern

Japan Overtakes China as Largest Holder of US Treasuries

Two Dead, 11 Hurt In Icy, 40-Vehicle Crash on I-95

Papua New Guinea Braces for Tsunami After 7.9 Magnitude Quake

Texas Bill Would Require Workers Under 18 to Get Their Parents’ Consent to Join a Union

Twitter blocks government 'spy centers' from accessing user data
ACLU investigation revealed fusion centers could access monitoring tech to target activists and journalists while racially profiling people deemed ‘suspicious’

Feds withheld key documents from Standing Rock Sioux

Arkansas Refuses to Grant Parenting Rights to Same-Gender Couples

Happy New Year, rich people! Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and Congress will make sure 2017 will be terrific for the super-wealthy

Wildlife for sale: An illegal activity out of control in Peru?
More than 67,000 wild animals have been seized over 15 years (between 2000 and 2015). This is a current problem that can be seen when visiting the market of Belen in Iquitos, where it is even possible to buy the meat of some species listed as endangered.

"Houston, we've had a problem here": A Bold, "Outside the Box" Suggestion for Addressing Climate Change and Other Forms of Environmental Destruction

Five ways Trump could unwind Obama's environmental policies

Climate Scientists Just Showed How They’d Resist The Trump Presidency

German government deleted passages from poverty report

Trump’s Pick for Labor Secretary Is Literally the Worst
Andy Puzder has spent his career enriching corporations on the backs of working people -- and is poised to be the most anti-worker labor secretary in history.

Draining the Swamp: A How-To Guide

Vietnam Veterans and Their Families Share Stories of Exposure, Illness and Frustration

How the US Failed My Family of Coal Miners

At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food and Values

Donald Trump faces impeachment if new conflicts of interest bill passed

Court refuses to lift order for state to deliver water in Flint

Autopsy: Unarmed 73-Year-Old California Man Killed by Police Was Shot Five Times

Apple owes $2 million for not giving workers meal breaks

This Billionaire Governor Taxed the Rich and Increased the Minimum Wage -- Now, His State’s Economy Is One of the Best in the Country

Leaked Report Reveals BP Safety Failures as It Heads Back to Gulf of Mexico

US to disclose estimate of number of Americans under surveillance

Wells Fargo Is on a Losing Streak, But Still Has Some Trump Cards

CIA Says FBI Backs Its Position on Russia Interference in US Election

If You Want to See How Donald Trump Will Destroy the Environment, Read This Legislative Roadmap

Matt Taibbi: The Vampire Squid Occupies Trump's White House

Some of the biggest foreign investment and commercial banks operating in the UK paid an average tax rate of just 6 percent on the billions of dollars of profits they made in the country last year

Elector who promised to vote against Donald Trump receives death and rape threats

Update: 1,094 Bias-Related Incidents in the Month Following the Election

Report Exposes How Trump's Vast Holdings Are Already "Jeopardizing US Interests" Around the World

The US Protects Its Wealthy Professionals Financially While Throwing Workers to the Wolves

Agriculture Eyed as Culprit in Global Methane Emissions Spike
Climate gains from a leveling off of carbon dioxide emissions are offset by a spike in methane, bringing new scrutiny to the livestock industry.

Why Climate Justice Means Racial Justice

Man receives $75 after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years

Court: Removing 'faithless' electors may be unconstitutional

Donald Trump’s HHS pick received thousands in donations from corporations with business awaiting agency approval

US Decides to Withhold Aid to Philippines While Duterte Continues Murderous Drug War, But What Will Trump Do?

Poll: Majority Want Monday’s Electoral College Vote Postponed in Wake of Russia Scandal

Mexico Reportedly Moves Ahead With Controversial Pipeline, Despite Moratorium

Colorado to Kill 45 Mountain Lions and 75 Black Bears so Hunters Have Mule Deer to Hunt

700+ Acres of Ohio's Only National Forest Leased for Fracking

Environment Amazon deforestation ticks tragically up
A sad record in 2016: the Amazon rainforest has suffered the largest reported forest loss since 2008. Environmentalists are very concerned about impacts on biodiversity and climate protection.

Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat

Corpus Christi had 3 reports of dirty water before ban

Buses attacked en route to evacuation of Syrian villages

6.1 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Peru, No Injuries Reported

House GOP quietly closes investigation into Flint water crisis

‘Where do you draw the line?’: Q&A with director of documentary about Amazonian community fighting oil extraction

Oil refineries don’t just pollute. They also kill and maim workers and threaten the public.

How Silicon Valley’s Oligarchs Are Learning to Stop Worrying and Love Trump
With resistance to the so-called sharing economy now centered in big blue cities, the bosses of those companies may find common cause with Trump’s regulation-demolishing approach.

Exxon is heading back to the Arctic once Russia sanctions are lifted

Canada May Soon Protect Monarch Butterflies as an Endangered Species

Family’s Shipping Company Could Pose Problems for Trump’s Transportation Pick

World Bank: Gaza's Water Crisis Is Causing Irreversible Damage

White House faces exodus of foreign policy experts ahead of Trump's arrival

Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday

Flame retardants and car seats? Still a thing.

Donald Trump’s Cabinet is really white and really rich

''Stop the Violence'': Can Community Groups Replace Police Without Supporting the Police?

Portland Enacts Small Donor Public Financing

Dare for Democracy: Three Essential Steps

Five reasons why Tillerson is likely to get through
The GOP establishment has started to coalesce behind President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson to head the State Department.

Out of Prison, Barrett Brown Recommits Himself to Agitating Against Existing Order

A cannabidiol hemp oil used by some families of children with seizures has been officially named a Schedule I drug by the DEA.

I’m a scientist who has gotten death threats. I fear what may happen under Trump.

Donald Trump faces Senate backlash over ‘cabinet of billionaires’

Google Publishes Eight Secret FBI Requests
Google revealed in October that it had been freed from a gag order preventing it from talking about a secret FBI request for customer data made in 2015.

Custody in Crisis: How Family Courts Nationwide Put Children in Danger

DuPont to Pay $50 Million for Mercury Pollution, Largest Settlement in Virginia History

Trump Hates Renewable Energy -- Unless It's Powering One of His Hot New Hotels

Green Climate Fund Misses 2016 Target as US Donation in Doubt

The Triumph of the 1%
A new study by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues shows that American inequality continues to rise, with no sign of abating.

It’s HB 2 all over again: North Carolina Republicans call secret ‘special session’ that could be a devastating blow for LGBT rights
During a secret session, North Carolina's Republican supermajority moves to strip the new governor of his powers.

From Reagan to Trump: Reflecting on Three Disastrous Elections

Exxon Mobil's long record of wrongdoing under Rex Tillerson

Agent Orange: Its Legacy Endures
Forty years ago the UN General Assembly passed a resolution against "hostile environmental modification techniques." But before that hundreds of thousands had been affected by the toxic herbicide.

How Doctors Could Thwart Healthcare Reform

Lawyers for Standing Rock protesters are pleading for more help

Universities Cut Services for a Big Group of Their Students: Those Over 25

Aleppo evacuation: Families wait in freezing cold as Obama denounces Syria 'horror'

Colorado is exploring how to keep its Obamacare marketplace after Obamacare repeal

California Gets Ready to Defy Trump's Washington

More arrests in North Carolina legislature protests

Pharmaceutical executives accused of bribing doctors to 'unnecessarily prescribe' fentanyl

Trump’s Pick for Commerce Secretary May Have the Biggest Conflicts of Them All

Global warming's fingerprints seen in 24 weird weather cases

Letters from the Hole
For People Living in Solitary Confinement, Mail Can Be the Only Reminder That They Have Not Been Forgotten by the World Outside Their Cells

Top NSA Watchdog Who Insisted Snowden Should Have Come to Him Receives Termination Notice for Retaliating Against a Whistleblower

How State Tax Policies Can Stop Increasing Inequality and Start Reducing It

Emoluments Clause: Could Overturning 185 Years of Precedent Let Trump Off the Hook?
Another view of the clause in the Constitution regarding payments from foreign countries would let Trump off the hook -- and overturn more than a century of practice and law.

A Healthier Democracy Starts Right Where You Live
The documentary “We the People 2.0” looks at why the rights of neighborhoods and cities are essential to building a better world.

Source: Donald Trump’s alleged threats against Hamilton Electors aren’t legal

Restoring the fundamental right of habeas corpus, legal scholars say, is crucial to protecting dissent under Donald Trump

Lessons For Our Time From Rachel Carson
What would the founder of environmentalism say to scientists under attack today?

Apple, Google and Others at Trump Tech Summit Have Stashed $560 Billion in Profits Overseas

Enough signatures gathered to put Medicaid expansion on Maine ballot
Maine Equal Justice Partners plans to put the referendum question on the November 2017 ballot if the Legislature doesn't secure passage by January.

California to Regulate Energy Use of Desktop Computers and Monitors

Justice Department Finally Opens Investigation of Orange County Snitch Scandal

Duterte's drug war: Death toll goes past 6,000
More than 1,000 people have been killed every month during the first six months of Duterte’s term.

Americans Think There Are 54 Million Muslims In America. There Are Only 3 Million

Donald Trump Sent the US Government a $32 Million Bill for His DC Hotel

Texas: More than 100 Corpus Christi businesses are part of a class-action lawsuit targeting the company responsible for a chemical leak that led to a citywide tap water ban.

Solar Power Is Now The World's Cheapest Energy

Trump’s pick for Interior secretary has links to neo-Confederate group that inspired Dylann Roof

North Dakota's Public Bank Was Built for the People -- Now It's Financing Police at Standing Rock

The Dark Side of Christmas: The Impact on Sweatshops

'We’re living in the end of times': Starving Venezuelans giving away children to survive

Greg Palast | The Republican Sabotage of the Vote Recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin

It's Started: Paying Off the Trump Family for Access

National Security Adviser Flynn Counsels on War While Profiting From It

'Bye bye America': Duterte threatens US troops pact

Poland crisis: police accused of using teargas to clear blockade

Report: Electors won’t get intelligence briefing

December 19: The Day to Defend Democracy

This cruel new policy makes it near impossible for kids to see their incarcerated parents