Saturday, April 4, 2026

How to fight for a better world when hope feels scarce

Instead of stifling our despair and pushing forward with more work, we need to make time for our fears.

Is the ‘liberal world order’ worth saving?

We live in a profoundly unequal world.

Healing from colonization on Thanksgiving and beyond

The gap between colonized and colonizer can be bridged, although it will take a lot of work on the part of both.

My year and welcome to it

Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.

US media can’t think how to fight fires without $1-an-hour prison labor

The main difference: Unlike prison laborers, regular citizens have to be paid more than pittance wages.

Why reparations to African-Americans are necessary – how to start now

Reparations are a way of making the country whole, by partially remedying the inherited inequalities that still plague African-Americans.

A great awakening? Qanon grows, goes global

Qanon seems to adapt almost any far right conspiracy theory into its overarching narrative of a world run by Satan worshiping pedophiles who may also be cannibals.

Take her name out of your mouth:’ Family of Mollie Tibbetts tell right-wingers, led...

"Mollie's death is not political propaganda to bring up your 'build the wall' bullshit."

Amazon refuses to act on climate change. So we employees are speaking out

We know from labor history that when workers want change, they shouldn’t just wait for company leadership to act.

Workers need more rights and economic democracy

It is time to correct the decades of diminishing worker rights and shrinking unions as well as low-pay.