What will happen when robots take over?
The greatest danger is that we will not agree on a road to happiness but rather one that leads to division and despair.
Bill McKibben: Green New Deal is a chance to ‘remake not just a broken...
"...if we don’t get action really soon, if we let it stretch out, those are the decades that will finish the work of breaking the planet. It’s why the urgency of something like the Green New Deal is so crucial."
A pledge to transform the resistance, and America
If today’s resistance is to become a lasting movement, we must decide what we’re for.
The Suicide of the Liberal Church
The liberal denominations and their seminaries, by betraying the poor, especially people of color, in a desperate bid to stay financially solvent, are making themselves obsolete.
Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma & long recovery
The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.
Federal minimum wage stagnant for 3,615 days, a ‘shameful’ period in history
"I've been criticized for this so let me say it again: the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr is a starvation wage. Every worker deserves a living wage of at least $15 an hour."
2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at Native American forum
Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
Why does ‘heaven’ want to destroy us? Meditation on the biggest eco-system of all
Who knew our species’ brainpower could conceive in advance, and with tragic specificity, the looming, incremental, not so Little Bang that awaits us?
Can Capitalism and Mankind Both Survive?
American mainstream journalism isn’t asking the big question: Can capitalism and mankind co-exist? The reason journalists aren’t asking is that they know the uncomfortable answer is: No they cannot.
How to talk to your relatives about climate change: A guide for the holidays
The Trump administration and the fossil fuels industry is actively working against clean energy progress, but we have the tools, the courts, and the people power to keep advancing clean power in states and cities.