Over 150 people gathered at a rally hosted by Durham workers, unions and community groups Saturday to urge Duke to increase its financial contributions to Durham. Specific demands included raising the...

North Carolina has become a testing ground for an eviscerated FEMA under Trump. It could also be a political liability for missing-in-action “recovery czar” and GOP U.S. Senate hopeful and Michael Wha...

At a news conference with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Larry Fink said he thinks the U.S. needs to build $10 trillion of infrastructure in 10 years.

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A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.

“I do not support these companies that are employing people on Sunday to make another dollar. I like how Chick-fil-A has done it, and I wish more companies would do that,” Anson County's Matt Longwort...

A new report by the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South, finds that while Durham, N.C. has boomed, workers’ wages have failed to keep pace — and for Black workers, the racial wag...

With a key U.S. Senate seat up for grabs, Texas progressives are hoping 2026 is the year they can break through. Facing South talks with a leading historian about the state's progressive political his...

"We're talking about the power to mass expel people who have done nothing wrong to countries that remain unsafe."

In the wake of the recent Louisiana v. Callais decision, the Supreme Court ruling that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Southern state lawmakers moved quickly to redraw district lines and st...

Hawaii is giving Citizens United a run for its money

On May 6, 2026, former Georgia state representative and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams testified before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the state's

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act aimed to ensure that diverse communities had political representation. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais threatens to increase the disconnect b...

The Supreme Court gutted what's left of the Voting Rights Act. Here's what happens now.

The attempt to return Confederate monuments, the erasure of Black history, and today's Supreme Court ruling aren't coincidences. They're a coordinated campaign

As the U.S. midterm elections approach, Democrats are winning legal challenges to the Trump administration's push to obtain states' voter rolls, dealing a blow to the president's unprecedented effort ...

Year the U.S. Forest Service was created to manage and protect the country's National Forests: 1905

ICE is rapidly expanding its network of detention centers. We have a playbook to fight back. Sign up to get alerts if a facility is planned near you.

The share of Southern workers in unions slightly increased in 2025, mirroring a small uptick in unionization nationally, according to government data released in February.

Philosopher Jason Stanley, who has been visiting Hungary for over 15 years, breaks down the historic defeat on Sunday of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu’s top EU ally.