From Indy Media

Soon after Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002, 40 of the 51 members of the New York City Council sponsored legislation aimed at curbing the growth of predatory lending practices by banks. According to the Daily News, “thousands of homeowners” had been taking on...

Since being acquitted by the Senate, Donald Trump has gone on a rampage against the rule of law, using all means at his disposal to punish his enemies and protect his friends. On the right-wing website Town Hall, Trump supporter Kurt Schlichter called on the president...

Keene, New Hampshire — On Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders took another step toward securing the Democratic nomination for president, the establishment wing of the party went three ways at once, and the state of New Hampshire put on an exhibition of electoral competence...

For 40 years, Mary Dugan has watched her hometown of East Greenbush, New York, transform from a sleepy rural community into a bustling Albany suburb, its once solitary forests now peppered with stripmalls and daily traffic jams. It's a transition Dugan hasn't minded....

It turns out pinnipeds know how to clap back. In fact, clapping back — and forward — between each other is how they communicate. Marine mammals, like whales, were known to use clicks to communicate to each other; now, according to new research, wild gray seals...

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, blasted Prada’s New York City store in a Facebook post for its “Pradamalia” line, which included items that clearly used Blackface imagery. The civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) then filed a...

Colin Absolam, who was facing imminent deportation to Jamaica after being released on parole from prison, was pardoned on Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He was pardoned after lawyers petitioned the governor's office, noting that he had already served 25 years for...

During the last Democratic presidential primary debate, a far-right group called NumbersUSA sponsored a slew of ads advocating for a long-sought-after xenophobic immigration policy: E-Verify. According to the website Broadcasting+Cable, NumbersUSA was the second...

If what happens in courtrooms across the country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on...

More than 14 million taxpayers paid for tax prep software last year that they could have gotten for free, according to a scathing audit released Wednesday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. That amounts to roughly a billion dollars in revenue...