Yearly Archives: 2017
Trump’s game plan
Racism and violence as decoys.
Why we must all fight for the DREAM Act
These DACA young people are our neighbors, our colleagues, and our classmates.
Are you ready for corporate America’s robot economy?
Robots are not our enemy – the corporate bosses, bankers and BSers who own robots are the ones doing this to us.
The high cost of free speech on college campuses
Public universities carry a heavy burden in upholding free speech in this charged political environment.
Cops fired after dragging doctor off United Airlines flight
Using violence to eject an innocent doctor from an airplane only weakens the public’s waning trust of law enforcement.
World’s first floating wind farm will power 20,000 homes
Scotland has officially switched on the Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating wind farm.
Fossil fuel misinformation helps quash community effort to ban fracking in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry.
Trump’s enablers should be shamed out of public life
The evidence is in: The "adults in the room" at the White House have enabled Trump's worst impulses, not checked them.
I am woman, hear me roar
Over half a million women (and some men as well) have used the #MeToo hashtag, exposing in a few short days how pervasive are the crimes of sexual harassment and rape.
Me too. And you. And you.
We can't stop sexual violence until we understand how very mundane it is.