Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
Tag: Texas
One Year After the Fall of Roe v. Wade
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, abortion care has become a patchwork of confusing state laws that deepen existing inequalities, writes Heidi Fantasia.
15 Million in US Losing Public Health Benefits
The cuts are a result of Biden’s refusal to continue the Covid-19 public-health-emergency declaration, which ends Trump’s Medicaid pandemic coverage expansion.
US LABOR DAY: Central American Migrants & US Labor History
Worker wins at Amazon and Starbucks recall a previous period of union success, writes Elizabeth Oglesby.
The Renewables Rush in Texas
Many of the beneficiaries of the state’s program have parent companies with high carbon emissions and a history of fighting climate policies, write Nathan Jensen and Isabella Steinhauer.
‘Hardening’ US Schools
William Astore says the idea of putting students and teachers inside pseudo military bunkers represents a surrender to the notion of schools as potential sites of gun combat and mass death.
Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic
Poverty and homelessness are not eternal, writes Liz Theoharis. Life truly does not have to be this way.
A Hunger Strike Against Big Oil
Ann Wright reports on Diane Wilson’s stand against channel dredging in mercury-laden Matagorda Bay, Texas.
Texans Reject Grid That Brought Disaster
A majority of voters in the state oppose keeping an independent power grid, reports Bilal Baydoun.
Texas Becoming Failed State Amid Historic Winter Storm
Millions of people are endangered by the Lone Star state’s isolated and underregulated electric grid.