Author: Vins

The United States is failing to fund Tribal Colleges and Universities across the country. As Cheryl Crazy Bull and Sara Goldrick-Rab reported for The Hechinger Report in September 2020, Tribal……

The rise in severity and frequency of wildfires ravaging California has magnified the failure of employers and state agencies to protect workers’ health in fire zones. Alleen Brown’s September 2020……

After completion of a prison sentence, individuals considered a danger to society can continue to be held indefinitely under what is called “civil commitment.” Civil commitment, which has been instituted……

Police are expanding their ability to spy on citizens through the use of sophisticated and pervasive surveillance technology in cities across the country. The police are using mass surveillance technology……

A family of potentially toxic chemicals, known as polyfluoroalkyl substances (or PFAS), are widespread in our environment due to their use in a range of products including carpet, furniture, clothing,……

Created in 2015, the anonymously-run, pro-Israel website CanaryMission.org aims to “document individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.” The site…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the charter school industry has sought small business relief aid that was earmarked for minority-owned businesses and redirected it to schools that “further isolate Black families,”……

More than 1.1 million seniors in the Medicare program could die prematurely over the next decade because they cannot afford the exorbitant prices of prescription medications. As Kenny Stancil reported……

Police surveillance by drones is on the rise, posing threats to citizens’ rights to free assembly and undermining constitutional protections against unwarranted searches or seizures. As Nick Mottern reported in…

A 2007 state law inadvertently protects police officers in New Jersey from accountability for misconduct, Andrew Ford reported for ProPublica and the Asbury Park Press in September 2020. Between 2013……

For a nation that identifies itself as “protector of the Free World,” the United States has been more than willing to sell arms to Saudi Arabia for its war with……

Researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Queensland’s QUEX Institute have found microplastics in crabs, oysters, prawns, squid, and sardines sold as seafood in Australian markets, according……

It took a full year, but in October 2020 Bolivia’s left-wing populist and indigenous political party MAS (Movement towards Socialism) democratically regained elected power from the hands of the right-wing……

The Oath Keepers, founded in 2009, is a right-wing militant group that now has some 25,000 members. Founder Steven Rhodes told journalist Mike Giglio, who reported for The Atlantic in……

The COVID-19 pandemic has “put roadblocks in the way of approval of family members as foster parents,” Angie Schwartz and Cathy Krebs reported for the American Bar Association in June……

A 2020 report from Amazon Watch, titled “Complicity In Destruction III,” shows how global corporations contribute to the violation of Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Brazilian Amazon. The report identifies……

In defiance of the Oslo Accord, Israel has consistently repressed Gaza’s fishing industry by restricting access to the sea. On August 16th 2020, the Israeli navy declared that the Gaza……

During California’s 2020 wildfire crisis, the state exploited prison labor to meet a labor shortage in fire fighters. As VICE’s Motherboard reported in September 2020, even as California recruited fire……

Palestinians account for approximately twenty percent of Israel’s total population, but in 2019 more than 67% of the officially reported murders in Israel involved Palestinian victims. In response, Palestinian mothers……

As students across the nation attend school online via video sharing programs due to COVID-19 restrictions on in-person education, government officials are “being allowed carte blanche visual access” to students’……

Quantum computing threatens “the security on which our digital ecosystem is built,” Vikram Sharma and William Dixon wrote for the World Economic Forum in August 2020. To counter this threat,……

Hyun Jung Kim reported in a November 2020 report for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that adopting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to speed development of a vaccine for COVID-19 entails……

Driven by demand in European Union countries, the southern US is now the world’s largest producer and exporter of the wood pellets used to produce biomass energy, Dana Smith reported……