After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the North Carolina Senate is pushing a broad and drastic attack on voting rights.

US restaurant chains are organizing to fight against laws requiring paid sick days for restaurant workers.

US citizens: tell Putin you support freedom for Pussy Riot.

Everyone: tell Google not to fund global heating denialists such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

The loss of Arctic sea ice could trigger a giant release of methane, which would cause tremendous global heating.

The damage could amount to 60 trillion dollars.

How does that compare with the cost of writing off 4/5 of the world's fossil fuel reserves, so as to prevent this disaster?