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Joplin, Missouri sits on a federal Superfund site where one in six residents lives in poverty, 460 children are homeless, and wages run $28,000 below the national average, the direct legacy of industrial extraction that built fortunes and left workers with poisoned soil. Yet Joplin votes Republican by 74% margins, rejected its own minimum wage increase by 731 votes, and sends to Washington two senators who have not lifted a finger to address the very conditions their party cr

How the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais Decision Unleashed a Nationwide Assault on Democracy — and Which Corporations Are Paying for It

The Supreme Court just brought back Jim Crow. Not as a metaphor. Not as hyperbole. As policy. We can write letters. We can call representatives. We should do both. But we can also do something those states will feel in their bones: we can stop spending our money there.

The bombs may be falling on Tehran. But the economic shockwaves are landing everywhere: at the gas pump, the grocery store, and on family farms from Missouri to Mumbai.