Maximillian Alvarez

We speak with a panel of survivors of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in Canada—one of the deadliest in North American history—and the 2023 East Palestine train derailment and chemical disaster in the USA.

From Maryland to Texas, residents fighting data centers tell us the same thing: “It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on. It's coming for all of us. And if we don't all wake up and work together, we're lost.”

Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israel's military and has been held captive for over 18 months without charge.

Love the World Cup but hate FIFA? Love professional sports but hate the billionaires, gambling companies, and authoritarians ruining them? You're not alone.

“The majority of Democrats out there are so far away from the party elders who hold all the power. And I think we have an opportunity as a party to molt: out with the old, in with what the people underneath the party really want.”

A local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to say, "Enough is enough!"

“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let go of power say that it's theirs.”

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organization, owned and democratically run by its workers and members.”

Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.

“[British Petroleum] just made $5.7 billion in three months and they're paying a bigger dividend. We've been here sacrificing our personal lives for 20 years and they are intentionally hurting us and our families. It's shameful.”