The commission's longest-serving member, who opposes the decision to roll back protections, discusses what's at stake When the Federal Communications Commission voted this month to gut internet neutrality protections, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
BOOK REVIEW | Former Salon editor David Daley documents how Republicans are using technology to ensure gerrymandered victories Ratfucked! A raw epithet that goes back to the 1920s. Five decades later, it became a favorite of Richard Nixon’s dirty trickste ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joe Martin
The U.S. senator talks with a street paper vendor about poverty in America Street paper vendor Ken Martin took advantage of a chance meeting with U.S. Sen. Al Franken. Franken was getting out of his car, and Martin was nearby, doing what he normally does ...
8 Sep 2017 - Ken Martin and Roberta Haber
Dreamers deserve a path to citizenship, says the congresswoman from Oregon One out of every eight residents in U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s District 1 is Latino or Hispanic, making the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program a critica ...
7 Sep 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Miranda Blue, editor at Right Wing Watch, tracks and archives the activities of the religious right and extremist movements America’s religious right first emerged as a powerful political force in the mid 1970s. Followers of televangelists, such as Pat Ro ...
18 Aug 2017 - Emily Green
'When the shock happens, that’s when people are most vulnerable,' the author of 'No Is Not Enough' tells Street Roots Naomi Klein’s latest book offers a strong dose of clarity to counteract the chaos plaguing the country since Donald T ...
23 Jun 2017 - Emily Green
He publicly walked away from an adviser role for the Environmental Protection Agency, but he's still dedicated to smart housing and healthy communities As a civil engineer, Carlos Martín could expect to get a few “likes” now and again on his social m ...
2 Jun 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Trump's budget cuts threaten to unravel Portland's success housing veterans After living his car, homeless, for a little over a year, Daniel Kallunki moved into a one-bedroom apartment near Troutdale last November, less than a month after receiv ...
26 May 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Anna Vasquez is one of the San Antonio Four – LGBT Latinas imprisoned for more than a decade for a horrific crime that never occurred. Now, Vasquez is working to protect others from wrongful conviction. Anna Vasquez and three of her friends – Elizabeth Ra ...
10 May 2017 - Suzanne Zalokar
COMMENTARY | There are many reasons to dismiss a declaration of crisis Be afraid, very afraid. There is good reason to fear that President Trump and the Republican Party are out to destroy our Social Security system. Social Security is an incredibly popu ...
17 Apr 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...