This article was funded by the Marvel Cooke Fellowship. Read more about this reporting project and make a contribution to fund our fellowship budget. Joseph Wilson, who is incarcerated in a maximum security state prison, believes COVID-19 worsened the existing crisis of incarceration in the United States and amplified the urgency for mutual aidContinue Reading
Pressured by the United States, Guatemala is seeking to criminalize as human traffickers those who are aiding migrants., Read MoreContinue Reading
Winnie-the-Pooh’s new horror role highlights the power of the creative commons., Read MoreContinue Reading
Dear Friend, We launch into 2023, with big, ambitious plans for the coming year, buoyed by last year’s successes — including six exonerations, two vacated death sentences, over 10 policy wins, a first-of-its-kind research convening and so much more. While we continue our core exoneration and policy work, and deepenContinue Reading
Subscribe to the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast with this free trial offer.Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder and co-author of War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, and Ann Wright, a CODEPINK member, retired Army colonel, and former State Department diplomat, join “Unauthorized Disclosure” hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola toContinue Reading
Dave Wagner, a leader of the 1977 Madison, Wisconsin, newspaper strike and a leader in the cooperatively-produced daily progressive newspaper Madison Press Connection, died on February 21 at the age of seventy-eight., Read MoreContinue Reading
The movement to ban certain books is gaining traction in Florida and around the country. Florida, with its ridiculous “Stop W.O.K.E.” and “Don’t Say Gay” laws is ground zero for the book banning rampage., Read MoreContinue Reading
An interview with musician and activist Holly Near., Read MoreContinue Reading
The West sought to erect a new Iron Curtain separating it from a bankrupt Russia. Instead, its sanctions have boomeranged back., Read MoreContinue Reading
Today, the state of Missouri executed Leonard “Raheem” Taylor even though a full investigation of his innocence claim was never conducted. Mr. Taylor was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend and her three children in 2004, despite evidence and witnesses putting him nearly 2,000 miles away in California atContinue Reading
Originally posted at Ongoing History of Protest Music Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up recently released their sixth full-length album “One Day.” As denoted by the album’s title, each band member committed to a self-imposed time frame of 24 hours to write and record their contributions. Compared to their previousContinue Reading
The $115 billion company has refused to negotiate with a single unionized store; now, its CEO is being held accountable by Congress., Read MoreContinue Reading
A conversation with author Will Sommer on his new book about the ever-expanding ‘super conspiracy.’, Read MoreContinue Reading