The First Step Act Could Be a Big Gift to CoreCivic and the Private Prison Industry
As people continue to die inside CoreCivic’s prisons, the First Step Act opens opportunities for the company to keep profiting from incarceration.
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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback
Erik Prince now offers a complete mercenary supply chain: anything from military hardware to social media manipulation in partnership with Project Veritas.
Episode Three: The Patels
Shailesh Patel was murdered in a small Georgia town in 2000. Questions remain, but one thing is clear: Patel’s murder is part of an emerging pattern of crime.
New “Dark Money” Documentary Shines Light Into the Shadows Cast by the Super-Rich
You will never see more hopeful examples of how normal people can fight and win skirmishes with big money.
Both of Mississippi's Senate Seats Are Up for Election. National Democrats Barely Paid Attention.
In failing to support the two Senate candidates in Mississippi, Democrats ignored the political opportunities presented by black voters in red states.
A Grassroots Uprising in Amish Country Begins to Find Meaning in Politics
The civic muscle is being exercised in Jess King's unlikely drive to flip a deeply red district. It's paying surprising dividends along the way.
Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to Civilization, New U.N. Report Concludes
When DDT was found to be harmful to humanity, it was banned outright. That sensible move now somehow eludes us.
How a DuPont Spinoff Lobbied the EPA to Stave Off the Use of Environmentally Friendly Coolants
Chemours asks in letter to the EPA for help promoting its HFO refrigerants, to stave off natural coolants that cause far less global warming.
Beware the Race Reductionist
In the debates over the proper role of identity politics, efforts to use identity to derail class-based projects have been widely overlooked.
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature”
Nathaniel Rich, in his massive New York Times Magazine article, argues “human nature” kept “us” from fixing climate change in the 1980s. He’s dead wrong.