Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medication abortions. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a clinical procedure. The drugs used for...
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) routinely employs private investigators to find a pretext for firing employees taking sick leave, according to a lawsuit recently filed in Texas. Shifts on the UP can last 12 hours for days at a time, and the danger of injury is a constant...
On Monday morning, nearly 9,000 tenured professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers went on strike at the three campuses of Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey, and one of the largest state universities in the nation. The workers...
During the pandemic, states were federally mandated to forgo the screening process of eligibility for Medicaid, the U.S. program that provides healthcare coverage for about 85 million people, including many low-income families, pregnant women, seniors, and people with...
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance inherited from the days of the Cold War between the U.S. and the former USSR, now the Russian Federation. NATO gathers together 31 states in Europe and North America in a military alliance. After the...
