A new report from Food & Water Watch highlights the explosive growth of drinking water bills across American households already testing the limits of their ability to afford day to day life.

We’ve crossed seven of the nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth habitable, and the consequences are already reshaping the conditions of human life.

Trump’s stock portfolio logged nearly 28,700 stock trades in his first 17 months back in office, more than all 535 members of Congress combined. While working class people live with the real world consequences of his economic decisions, the president holds investments that could directly profit from them.

California, Colorado and Illinois have passed laws that make age classification part of your phone and computer. Privacy advocates warn that once this system is in place, it could make more invasive forms of identity verification much easier to expand.

Police agencies in at least 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement money on automated license-plate readers, including Flock cameras. 

Anthropic is building out a corporate intelligence operation that monitors activists, tracks protests near company executives and facilities, and in some cases alerts law enforcement before a crime has occurred.

New York City just created the nation’s first Office of Worker Power, offering a new model for how local government can help workers organize, understand their rights and rebuild collective power.