This year has seen extraordinary amounts of rain in California, putting inordinate amounts of stress on the levees. The 1,700 person town of Pajaro, home to mostly undocumented farm workers, was flooded due to levees breaking. It was evacuated just ahead of the...
The world just marked the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but there is also another anniversary — 20 years since the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq. While the opposition and condemnation of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine is completely...
Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a small bank focused on investing in tech companies, suddenly collapsed, sending shockwaves through the financial markets. The collapse raises fears that another, bigger collapse is coming, something like what happened in 2008....
Food stamp programs are being slashed in 32 states. These cuts will affect 30 million people who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), each losing about $92 per month. The states that will be most affected are California and Texas, which have...
The Biden administration, in spite of its promises, has maintained the same hostility to migrants as the Trump administration. Under the same emergency health law, invoked during the COVID crisis, border agents have the right to turn people away at the border who...
