Monthly Archive: November 2016
Around the world this week, activists rallied in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline. But there’s another natural gas pipeline under construction in the southeastern U.S. that’s prompting environmentalists to protest and even risk arrest. FSRN’s...
In the days following the U.S. presidential election, accounts of harassment of racial and religious minorities have surged. Many link the incidents to rhetoric used in the Trump campaign and to endorsements of his...
Students at universities and institutes of learning across the country held coordinated rallies Wednesday, calling for their administrations to make their campus sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. The calls come in response to campaign pledges...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued another delay in the permitting process for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. The stall came in a statement issued one day before a National Day of...
Across India, people are panicking after the government declared all 500 and 1,000 rupee bills will be worthless by the end of the year. Banks are short on cash and sporadic violence has broken...
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What supporters saw as an anti-establishment candidate, tens of thousands of protesters see as an anti-immigrant, anti-women’s rights and anti-minority president-elect and they have been demonstrating around the country since Donald Trump won enough...
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election has focused renewed scrutiny on the Electoral College system. The United States is the only major democracy in the world to elect its president by a mechanism...
Electoral college system hands Trump presidency, Clinton leads popular vote Street Beat: Reactions to the 2016 U.S. presidential election results Missouri voters pass ballot measure to erode voting rights protections Recreational marijuana legalized in...
Despite Donald J. Trump’s victory in the race to capture 270 electoral votes and clinch the U.S. presidency, most Americans did not vote for him. In fact, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote —...