With “progressive” New York being among the only two states in the nation (North Carolina the other) that sets the age of criminal responsibility at 16, Governor Andrew Cuomo is prioritizing getting comprehensive legislation passed that raises the age of criminal liability at 18. This will ensure that adolescents are …

As President Barack Obama is set to become the first sitting US President to visit a mosque during his presidency, at least one of his adversaries is not impressed. Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who recently endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency, suggested Sunday that Obama’s motives were so …

Jason Van Dyke, the Chiacgo Police officer who fatally shot LaQuan McDonald, intentionally damaged his dash-cam and failed to sync his microphone to the camera. Even more disturbing is that a new investigation is revealing that these tactics are commonplace in the Chicago Police Department and nationwide. In a study …

According to a report from Buzzfeed News, a group of approximately 100 masked men physically attacked Swedish immigrants in a train station Friday night. Immediately before the attack, several subsets of the group were seen passing out anti-immigration and white nationalist fliers. Via Think Progress: Four suspects were arrested in …

A survivor who kept himself alive by hiding in a tree says he witnessed Boko Haram burn dozens of children alive and firebomb and entire village, an attack that has left at least 86 dead in Nigeria. Countless charred bodies and bullet-ridden corpses littered the streets in the aftermath of …

A Minnesota area high school has come under intense scrutiny after several white male students were caught showing up to a dodgeball dressed like the Ku Klux Klan. As first reported by WCCO, students from Mound Westonka High School were spotted by parents and community members wearing pointed white hats and …

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking claimed that the world’s elite super rich are indeed worried about inequality in a big way.  Not about solving it, but about having escape plans if growing unrest leads to a global uprising. “I …

Now companies with 100 employees or more must disclose their pay data along with the gender, race and ethnicity of their employees, President Barack Obama ordered today.  According to the president, black and Latina women are suffering the most from unequal pay practices.  Disclosure of wages will make it easier …

It happened on live television.  The 80-year old father of Brian Beaird watched a car chase live in December 2013 and saw his son shot to death by three Los Angeles police officers. According to the father, his son, an 8-year veteran of the National Guard, had been suffering from …

Via Democracy Now: Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, has filed a lawsuit over government surveillance of phone, text and email communications that the Bush administration allegedly conducted during the 2002 Winter Olympics. He argues they put a “surveillance cone” over a broad geographic area and violated …

A Georgia state representative has infuriated anger nationally after making several statements blatantly defending the KKK, saying they were “not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order.” “It made a lot of people straighten up,” Republican State Rep. Tommy Benton said, as first …

According to newly released documents obtained by Progress Michigan, state employees in Flint were provided coolers with bottled water in January of 2015 in response to growing concerns about the quality of drinking water in the area. The notice shown in the image above was issued months before Michigan state …

File this one under the shameful and morally reprehensible. As though gunning down Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones wasn’t enough, after 911 operators failed to respond three times to LeGrier’s calls for help, the Chicago officer responsible is now suing LeGrier’s family for ’emotional distress.’ Say that again? A cop responds …

As the Flint Water Crisis continues to magnify, new atrocities are coming to light. Earlier this week we broke that aides to Governor Snyder were aware of this human rights violation over three years ago. We have also witnessed an outpouring of support from the American public, many of whom …