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Paramount bosses Larry and David Ellison aren’t having much fun in the wake of a 12 state antitrust lawsuit that risks derailing their $111 billion attempt to dominate what’s left of U.S. corporate media. There’s been a certain creeping desperation apparent the last month or two; whether it’s the company’s top lawyer claiming that critics […]

Dan Pfeiffer: “Trump’s tariffs were stupid economically, but they were also unconstitutional. Because Congress would never vote to raise costs on the American people, Trump used legal authorities so dubious that even this Supreme Court felt compelled to strike them down.” “So, American families spent $1,100 of their hard-earned money on illegal tariffs that never […]

Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides.

Public Citizen has filed a formal Hatch Act complaint against Attorney General Todd Blanche after he appeared at a campaign rally in New York supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman and praised him from the stage.

I got to know James “Buck” Martin some years ago while working at Green Meadow Correctional Facility’s law library, where we both clerked. No one introduced us; our inevitable meeting was the result of limited library space at the former maximum security prison in New York, which pushed even the most reserved people toward each […]

The post James ‘Buck’ Martin Suffered Severe Pain, Then Died. Did His Prison Do Enough to Help? appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Today, as with most mornings, Ubaldo T. is helping people. He volunteers in the prison hospice, where he sits amid monitors and tubes and wires and ensures that imprisoned people who are dying have someone by their side.

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“Recent weeks have seen the whirring and chirping to life of the various election prognostication machines we’ll all be refreshing between now and November,” NOTUS reports. “They differ when it comes to the Senate — control there is either a toss-up or a slight Democratic advantage, depending on which you like best. But for the […]

CNN's biggest embarrassment and one of Donald Trump's top press secretary contenders, Scott Jennings, just found himself in serious hot water after he was caught using blatantly deceptive edited video footage to lodge disgusting and categorically untrue claims of racism aga...

Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, was named by a court-ordered brief as the key reason a federal judge stripped Trump's IRS settlement of its power in court. Court-appointed attorneys filed the memorandum last week ...

Jeffery Peterson was an educator for 30 years. During his career, he received a mayoral proclamation in recognition of his work and was named a Wisconsin Principal of the Year. But then things changed immediately after Peterson asked about insurance benefits for his partner...

On this day in 1933, my pal Harlan Ellison, one of the most influential speculative-fiction writers of the twentieth century and, was born. Trying to summarize the breadth and influence of his life as a writer, critic, editor, activist and raconteur would be the work of we...

In The New York Times, Lisa Lerer and Katie Glueck have a dark warning for Democrats: Is the Democratic Party Facing Its Own Tea Party Moment? A movement of young, progressive outsiders has stormed Democratic politics this year, sparking a wave of contentious primary conte...

Portrait of Franz Marc, 1910 #expressionism #macke