Politics

The United Nations now estimates that roughly half the population of Afghanistan is currently facing acute hunger.

Despite claims of divestment, Warren Kanders’s companies are still selling chemical weapons used by police against peaceful protesters.

It’s time to publish graphic images of school shootings and other acts of violence. But change won’t come from that alone.

Across major cities, voters picked reform-minded district attorneys who promised to fight mass incarceration. Now, conservatives in both parties are trying to take them out.

Hassan’s chief of staff (and fundraising consultant) argued privately that pushing back against Big Tech is bad politics. The opposite appears to be the case.

The ad points to a congressional ethics investigation into Newman's campaign. “This is just an ongoing march against progressive women,” Newman told The Intercept.

“If you are concerned about your workers discussing topics like ‘restrooms’ or ‘slave labor,’" write Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Cori Bush, and others, "the answer is ... to improve your treatment of workers."

Proponents have passed similar bills before, but this time they'll have to contend with a White House striving to rekindle relations with Saudi Arabia.

Trudy Busch Valentine’s former plantation, Grant’s Farm, planned to help line the gun lobby’s pockets after the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Activist Rana Abdelhamid, formerly the progressive favorite to take on NYC’s most powerful career Democrats, suspended her campaign.