Oakland Teachers Are Striking for More Pay, Smaller Classes, and an End to School Closures Like This One
Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday morning, on the first day of Oakland’s teacher strike, a dozen or so teachers from Roots International Academy gathered around a branch-and-grass mandala in front of their school in East Oakland. Bundled up in school jackets, puffy coats, and gloves,…
Teachers in West Virginia Went on Strike Again—and Earned a Huge Victory Within Hours
Teachers and school personnel celebrate after the House of Delegates postpone a vote on Senate Bill 451 indefinitely at the state Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia, during a statewide teachers’ strike.Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday night, West Virginia teachers’ unions called for a statewide strike.…
Why the Green New Deal Is So Vague About Food and Farming
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold a press conference on the Green New Deal outside of the Capitol on February 7, 2019. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Green New Deal resolution, released last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed…
HUD Official Who Planned Eric Trump’s Wedding Just Kicked Off a Monthlong Publicity Stunt
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After saying that the government shutdown delayed her plans, Department of Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator Lynne Patton is moving into New York City’s public housing for one month. Patton, who once organized events for members of the Trump family (including…
10 Years of Privacy Violations, Disinformation, and Friend Requests From Facebook
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Facebook assumed its central role in the information landscape, the company quietly made decisions that boosted profits with little regard to the consequences for privacy, politics, and the news industry. When those controversial calls and other travails associated with abuses of the platform gradually…
Over the Past Five Weeks, Fair-Housing Advocacy Nearly Collapsed
Jitalia17/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During the government shutdown, in which 800,000 federal workers worked without pay or were furloughed for five weeks alongside 1.2 million federal contractors, the Department of Housing and Urban Development was shuttered, with 95 percent of its staff furloughed. The effects reverberated throughout the country. Programs like…