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Save Our Forests, One Roll at a Time
Want an easy New Year’s resolution? Replace some of your conventional toilet paper with rolls made from recycled paper.
Pop Stars: Keep Denouncing ICE!
The Trump administration is picking fights with celebrities opposed to ICE on purpose. It’s still better to speak out.
How To Have a Plastic-Free Holiday Season
Our world is awash in plastic and Americans are sick of it. Fortunately, you can have a plastic-free — or plastic-light — holiday season.
Birthright Citizenship Is in the Constitution Plain As Day
It’s intolerable that the Supreme Court should consider reopening an issue it took a Civil War to resolve.
Congress Cut Medicaid. It Could Devastate Rural Hospital Staffing.
Federal cuts to health care means health centers will have less funding — and less staffing — while trying to serve more uninsured patients.
The Public Pays the Price for Big Tech’s Data Centers
The relentless push for data centers is raising our power bills and polluting our communities. It doesn’t have to be this way.
ICE Prisons Are Growing Deadlier
Deaths in ICE facilities have reached their highest point in decades as the agency continues to abuse detainees and resist oversight.
Trump’s Aggression Toward Venezuela Should Be Setting Off Alarm Bells
It’s looking a lot like the run-up to the Iraq war — only this time, the allegations are even more bogus and easily disproven.
You Need to Understand the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’
The court’s MAGA majority has used a bureaucratic workaround to issue unsigned, unjustified rulings that often greenlight unlawful actions.
Police ‘Sweeps’ of Homeless Camps Are Worse Than You Think
As more and more communities criminalize homelessness, I want to share what it’s actually like to have the police take all your earthly belongings.