From Indy Media

The COVID-19 pandemic’s global spread has highlighted inequities in the world like inequality of income and access to resources in many communities. The response to the crisis has been a varied patchwork of public health measures and economic assistance, but in most...

It was called “one of the most brazen acts of voter suppression in modern history.” With an unsigned opinion, believed to come from Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court voted 5–4 that it was OK for Wisconsin to disqualify ballots postmarked and received after their...

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling reinstating the presidential primaries in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Letitia James, sought to block the vote from happening. Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will be on...

Despite never having heard of a pension plan before this year, 18-year-old Natalie Penna finds herself discussing New York state's retirement fund, and its role in financing the fossil fuel industry, quite a lot lately. "We're investing in these things that will...

The Trump administration continues to find new ways to jeopardize the lives and safety of migrant children and their families. Lawyers representing migrant children across the United States, as well as government officials, are accusing the federal government of using...

Hackers trying to extort a prominent New York City celebrity law firm doubled the ransom they were seeking on Thursday to $42 million, claiming that they have dirt on President Trump that could doom his reelection chances. VICE News reported Friday morning that the...

The clearest way out of the current pandemic—though it may a year or more away—is a vaccine, mass produced and made freely available to all. This being America, of course, not everyone is on board for making something free. In the lead-up to the first...

The president of the United States has made a decision—sort of—that despite the lack of sufficient testing, resources to embark upon the tracing of the contacts of all people testing positive for Covid-19, and the ability to humanely isolate those infected, we are...

By March 14, London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, had seen enough. For weeks, she and her health officials had looked at data showing the evolving threat of COVID-19. In response, she’d issued a series of orders limiting the size of public gatherings, each one...

Charles Thayer has manned the polls in Bangor, Maine, for 18 years. But when the doors open at the city’s sole polling place for the state’s July 14 primary, he won’t be there. Thayer, 78, is staying home because his wife has a compromised immune system. “I would not...