“Extreme hostility” toward women’s healthcare and abortion access continued in 2015 and went far beyond attempts to defund Planned Parenthod, with state legislatures introducing nearly 400 bills and enacting 47 new laws restricting reproductive rights, according to a new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). “It seems painfully clear that lawmakers in 2015…

Now that casino magnate and billionaire rightwinger Sheldon Adelson has been outed as the mystery buyer of an influential Nevada newspaper, a watchdog group is demanding that the publication appoint an independent public editor to monitor conflicts of interest and ethical breaches. “Vigorous, independent journalism is vital to the health of democracy,” Todd O’Boyle, director…

A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital in northern Yemen was bombed Sunday morning, killing at least four people and wounding eleven—marking the third attack in as many months against a facility associated with the medical charity. MSF said in a statement that it “cannot confirm the origin of the attack” on the Shiara…

Though the Nobel Peace Prize has had its reputation badly battered in recent years by charges its moral compass has broken, it remains one the world’s most prominent humanitarian awards. And while the leaders of Europe, the United States, and other nations around the world have been accused of turning a collective blind eye to…

As President Obama introduced Merrick Garland on Wednesday as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican lawmakers “doubled down” on their vow to block the election-year nominee. Garland, who currently serves as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, is widely considered a “moderate” choice, and thus a…

Vice President Pence recorded a robocall that went out Tuesday in support of Republican candidate Greg Gianforte ahead of the Montana special House election this week. “Hello, this is Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PencePence posts, deletes photo of Trump campaign staff without face masks, not social distancing Pence threatens to deploy military if…

Tens of thousands of protesters surrounded Japan’s parliament on Sunday in the latest rally against the unpopular plan to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base to Okinawa’s northern coast, while simultaneous protests took place in the cities of Toyama, Okayama, Sapporo, Nagoya, and Osaka. “Don’t build the base,” and “follow the will of Okinawa,” shouted…

With so many bold proposals, what might a Bernie Sanders presidency do to the national economy? It turns out, great things. In fact, according to the economist who performed the first independent, comprehensive analysis of the candidate’s economic agenda, a Sanders win could usher in a modern-day “New Deal,” under which Americans would see incomes…

After fresh calls for Gov. Rick Snyder’s resignation emerged from Sunday night’s Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan, local and national activists came together Monday morning to bear witness to and demand concrete solutions for the city’s ongoing lead-poisoning crisis. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 “It’s an atrocity, what’s happening here,” actor and environmentalist…

EU member states and the European Parliament will be “sidelined” in favor of big business and U.S. interests should the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) go through, according to a leaked document revealed Friday. The leak, of the corporate-friendly trade deal’s draft chapter on “regulatory cooperation” between the EU and U.S., was made public…