Peter Rugh
Last week, Lopi LaRoe received a letter threatening her with jail time and thousands of dollars in fines for enlisting Smokey to the anti-fracking cause.More
Approximately 400 fast food workers in New York City went on a day-long strike Thursday — the latest action in an ongoing campaign for higher wages and a cross-franchise union.More
Many in Far Rockaway, Queens, lost their jobs after Hurricane Sandy, but a new cooperative initiative hopes to rebuild the economy with residents in power.More
“You're going to miss me when I'm gone.” Those words were posted on Facebook by Kimani Gray shortly before he was killed by undercover police officers.More
Despite a strategy of ignoring climate change during his first term, President Obama appears ready to make it a top priority. More
A line of people formed around the block in front of Brooklyn College last Thursday evening. Dozens of police officers scrutinized the overflow crowd entering the school’s student center for weapons.More
It was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and the sound of pounding drums mingled with subway steel rattling underground, sending a hot pulse through the high-arched edifice of a humble house of worship in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.More
Hundreds of clenched fists were raised Wednesday afternoon at Albany’s Empire Convention Center. Behind a security checkpoint defended by state troopers in rigid-brimmed campaign hats, New York governor Andrew Cuomo delivered the annual State of the State address to a room packed with clapping hands.More
The mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 young school children and seven adults (including the shooter himself) has not only reignited the debate over gun control in the United States, but also a discussion over how communities deal with madness in their midst.More
