50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…
Large-Scale Animal Agriculture Is Threatening Rural Communities. Congress Is About to Make it Worse.
dhughes9/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Residents of tiny Lone Jack, MO, are fighting a proposal by a local ranch to expand its feedlot from around 600 cows to nearly 7,000. It is the latest in a series of communities pushing back against a national trend toward concentrated animal agriculture.…
Inside IBM’s Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was published in partnership with ProPublica. For nearly a half century, IBM came as close as any company to bearing the torch for the American Dream. As the world’s dominant technology firm, payrolls at International Business Machines Corp. swelled to nearly a quarter-million…
The Real Enemy of the White Working Class Is … the White Middle Class
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tucker Carlson is getting some flak over this: On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined on demographic change and immigration in America….The segment was focused on a National Geographic article featured in the magazine’s April issue. Though the article,…
The Trump Administration Is Pushing to Sell Offshore Drilling Leases, and It’s Tanking Profits for Taxpayers
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement/Flickr Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in US history, which included all available areas in the Gulf of Mexico, garnered only tepid interest from oil and gas companies on Wednesday. Industry and government representatives called the results encouraging and consistent. Critics…
Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Pedestrian Collision
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Tempe Police Department has released video from the Uber car that hit a pedestrian on Sunday. Here’s the front-facing video at the 3.2 second mark: By eyesight alone, there’s nothing there. And here it is one second later: There are a few things we…