Big Agriculture’s bleak future for all of us
A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid manure every year. Residents fear the…
Cops illegally took his camera … but they weren’t ready for what happened next!
Holding police accountable requires defending the First Amendment right to put them on camera. This is why Philip Turner, known on YouTube as The Battousai, fought to solidify that right…
Remembering George Jackson, revolutionary author and activist
To celebrate Black August, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks with Claude Marks about the life and legacy of revolutionary author and activist George Jackson 50…
Who won the War in Afghanistan? The Taliban and defense contractors
After tens of thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars wasted, the US departure from Afghanistan has left the Taliban in total control. How can we begin to measure…
Big business exploits prison labor instead of paying fairer wages
After surviving a deadly pandemic, workers in the US are reluctant to return to unsafe workplaces for poverty wages. Rather than offer better pay, protections, and benefits, businesses are choosing…
Eviction nightmare begins as Democrats let moratorium expire
As Congress heads out for a long recess without extending the pandemic-related moratorium on evictions, millions face a nightmare scenario.  Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth…
Factory farming is pushing independent farmers to the edge of extinction
A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid manure every year. Residents fear the…
Richard Wolff: Capitalism is holding “all of us hostage”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of work and the lives of working people in drastic ways. Millions of workers lost their jobs over the past year and a…
The moratorium extension won’t end evictions
Progressives celebrated as Biden extended the eviction moratorium. But three housing advocates in a city with one of the nation’s highest eviction rates warn that renters were never really protected…
Cops want him to plead guilty to see his kids, but he’s fighting back instead
Just how far will the criminal justice system go to quash dissent? The case of popular police auditor Otto the Watchdog is a cautionary tale of how far prosecutors and…
Slavery still exists in the US, but these CA organizers are working to end it
Thanks to the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the US in the form of low- or no-wage prison labor. But organizers like Jeronimo Aguilar and John Cannon are working…
We are running out of time to stop runaway climate change
Deadly heat waves, wildfires, melting ice sheets, and devastating floods around the world are just a small taste of what humanity will continue to face if it fails to dramatically…
Striking nurses hold the line against investor-owned healthcare giant
Monday, August 9, marked the 155th day that nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have been on strike. At the center of the strike is a concern about…
Palestinian villagers fight against illegal Israeli settlements in Beita
In early May, a group of Israeli settlers arrived with caravans and set up an illegal outpost on the top of Jabal Sabih on the outskirts of Beita, which is…
Cops made his life a living hell. Judges are making it worse
Offensive Facebook posts led to the arrest of activist Joshua Martinez. But his treatment in court and $1 million bail reveal the often-overlooked role played by judges in the questionable…
Cops hate citizen journalists, but they’re not the only ones
Citizen journalists continue to play a critical role in holding police accountable, which is why they face increasing pushback from the underlying system that bolsters bad cops. PAR speaks to…
Connecticut made prison phone calls free. Other states should do the same
After Gov. Ned Lamont signed a new bill into law in June, Connecticut became the first state in the US to make phone calls free for incarcerated people, including those…
Striking Alabama coal miners protest corporate greed at NYC BlackRock headquarters
Striking Alabama coal miner Mike Wright says workers at Warrior Met Coal are taking their calls for fair pay and benefits to the NYC headquarters of their company’s biggest investor:…
1998 mass shooter still used to justify life sentences for juveniles
Kip Kinkel was publicly reviled when, suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, he shot and killed his mother and father before killing two of his classmates and wounding 25 others in…
Factory farms pose an ‘existential threat’ for rural Wisconsin communities
The rural landscape in the US is changing drastically: The days of the independent family farm have increasingly given way to industrial agriculture and factory animal farms. In states around…
Cops destroyed her family with a suspicious drug bust. 47 years later she’s breaking her silence
The nation’s endless war on mind-altering substances has many casualties, some who refuse to be forgotten. That’s why Catherine Freeman is coming forward after 47 years to describe how her…
Don’t mess with a coal miner’s wife
Union miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have now been on strike for four long months, facing economic hardship, social stigma, and even physical assault on the picket…
U.S. Supreme Court ruling makes it easier for judges to give young people life sentences. Now what?
ACLU legal expert Sonia Kumar says the ruling slows but does not stop the movement toward more just sentencing for juveniles. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth…
The US is the ONLY country sentencing children to life without parole. A movement is fighting back.
Sonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood. Help us continue producing radically…
Pfizer’s greed is killer, say protesters
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of New York City, chanting “Pfizer’s Greed Kills,” as Pfizer and the German government refused to share COVID-19 vaccine formulas with the Global…
US media co-opts Cuba protests for imperialist ends
Amid power outages, food shortages, and continued fears over COVID-19, amplified by 60 years of economic strangulation by a US blockade, thousands of protestors in Cuba have taken to the…