“This research provides a view into just how embedded the corporate, profit-fueled war machine is in our higher education and cultural institutions,” said one campaigner. A trio of human rights groups on Wednesday announced a new interactive initiative exposing what the coalition is calling a “Genocide Gentry” of weapons company executives and board members and […]
More than 40 former members of Congress said the ETHICS Act is sorely needed because it “addresses pressing issues, especially low levels of trust in Congress and the appearance of insider trading.” A bipartisan group of more than 40 former federal lawmakers on Monday urged the U.S. Senate to vote on proposed legislation that would […]
Amber Nicole Thurman’s death “is the logical outcome of the Georgia abortion ban working exactly as intended by horrifically punishing women who try to access abortion care,” said one advocate. Reproductive rights advocates have warned for years that abortion bans and restrictions like those now in place in 22 U.S. states would kill pregnant people, […]
U.S. President Joe Biden decried a second, apparent assassination attempt against his predecessor, condemning the political violence as un-American. “There’s no place for political violence in America. None. Zero. Never,” Biden told a conference of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) in Philadelphia. “In America, we resolve our differences peacefully at the ballot box. Not […]