Environment

Mayors Across U.S. Urge Congress Not To Repeal Clean Energy Tax Credits

Wyatt Myskow / Inside Climate News Feb 13, 2025 Trump has frozen funds on programs that create thousands of clean energy jobs across the country — most of them in Republican-led states. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The U.S. Is Quietly Opening Detention Camps for Small Children

Aura Bogado / Reveal Jul 15, 2019 A new investigative report finds a Phoenix facility is holding 12 boys and girls as young as three months old—all without their mothers. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Silicon Valley Couldn’t Care Less About Earth’s Imminent Demise

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 10, 2019 It may be too late to save the planet, warns Bill McKibben, but there's a reason that doesn't seem to keep up our tech barons up at night. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )

Police Are Enabling Rampant Abuse in Immigrant Children’s Shelters

Michael Grabell, Topher Sanders and Silvina Sterin Pensel / ProPublica Dec 21, 2018 Across the country, kids are reporting acts of sexual assault, only to see their cases opened and promptly shut. ProPublica investigates. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Immigrant Kids Held in Second Phoenix Office Seen Bathing in Sinks

By Aura Bogado / Reveal Jul 17, 2018 Reveal finds a second Phoenix office building where MVM Inc. detained immigrant children. An insurance executive says they bathed in bathroom sinks. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Media Report Prompts Call for Closure of Phoenix Detention Facility

Aura Bogado, Ziva Branstetter and Vanessa Swales / Reveal Jul 9, 2018 Following an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, officials in Arizona want to shut down a building used by a government contractor to hold immigrant children. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Arizona Students Back in Class After Six-Day Teacher Strike

MELISSA DANIELS and TERRY TANG / The Associated Press May 4, 2018 The state's educators win a 20-percent pay raise by 2020 after a walkout that was part of a bubbling national uprising over low pay and school funding. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

What You Have to Earn to Buy a Home in Biggest U.S. Cities

Steve Rosenfeld / AlterNet Nov 21, 2017 Most Americans cannot afford to live in progressive coastal epicenters. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New Sheriff Wants to Turn Joe Arpaio’s ‘Tent City’ Into Opioid Treatment Center

Emily Wells / Truthdig Oct 16, 2017 Sheriff Paul Penzone hopes to undo the inhumane policies of his predecessor. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Black Lives Matter Movement Offers Badly Needed Lessons on Electoral Politics

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Aug 13, 2015 We need to stop putting our favorite candidates on a pedestal. Instead, as Black Lives Matter has shown recently, progressives need to set the agenda and force candidates to follow. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Phoenix in the Climate Cross Hairs

By William deBuys, TomDispatch Mar 14, 2013 If you want a taste of the brutal new climate to come, don't think of Hurricane Katrina or Superstorm Sandy. Look to Phoenix, where if the power goes out, people fry. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

First Openly Bisexual Member of Congress Makes for Another Election 2012 Milestone

Staff / Truthdig Nov 13, 2012 Kyrsten Sinema will represent the good people of Phoenix in the House after emerging victorious from an election-night squeaker. And thanks to the 36-year-old former state senator, the next Congress will feature its first openly bisexual member, as well as its first lesbian senator and first openly LGBT person of color. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )