Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The plan will make one of the country’s most dangerous jobs — working in a meat processing plant — even more unsafe, labor advocates argue. Under the Read More…
Jake Guse, a crop scout on the Pro Farmer Crop Tour, collects corn samples from a corn field as scouts travel across the midwest trying to gauge the size of the corn and soybean crop that farmers will harvest in the fall, in northwest Indiana on Aug. 19, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson described Read More…
Analysis by Kristen Welker The Justice Department’s announcement today that it was releasing more than 3 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein raises a key question for the Trump administration: Will it be enough to quell criticism from lawmakers, survivors and some of the president’s own supporters? President Donald Trump‘s handling of the Epstein investigation has Read More…
Uline warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy© Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s 2024 election and other Maga Republicans, she did not hold back. “As America descends rapidly into fascism,” Wittmann Read More…
For decades, the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has been at the center of conspiracy theories, scientific intrigue, and international debate. Claimed by some to be a powerful weather-manipulating tool and even a mind-control device, HAARP’s true purpose has been overshadowed by wild speculations. But what exactly is HAARP? Why was it built, and what are Read More…
Stanley Andrisse, who was once incarcerated in a maximum security prison, now serves as a tenured professor at Howard University and founder of From Prison Cells to Ph.D., a nonprofit helping justice-impacted people succeed in higher education. His path shows how loss pushed him toward science, how education opened unlikely doors, and how he now helps Read More…
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