Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.
Zuckerberg’s Get-Away Car
The Facebook founder's “philanthropy” lets him stash his billions without paying taxes.
Merry Christmas: Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Rationality doesn't seem to be included in the liturgy of right-wingers' political church.
Our celebrity president and his media accomplice
Celebrities need an accomplice and Trump understood, after all those years of collaborating with the media, that they would fulfill that role for him with wall-to-wall coverage.
Jockpocalypse
From the ballpark to team Trump.
Follow Alabama’s lead on child care
If one of our poorest states can rise to meet this basic human need, why can’t Congress?
A history of the Earth
On our small but beautiful earth, made small by technology, made beautiful by nature, there is room for one group only: the family of humankind.
‘We are not robots’: Amazon workers across Europe walk out on Black Friday over...
Amazon CEO "Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out," says a U.K. union leader.
As media labels Fukushima a “conspiracy theory,” radiation soars to record level
Considering so little is currently understood about the catastrophe, perhaps so-called conspiracy theorists, who doubt the ‘Fukushima is under control, don’t worry about it’ narrative, are the only ones displaying a modicum of common sense.
Alabama passes near total ban on abortion as part of ‘Stealth Campaign’ to overturn...
Architects behind the legislation want to use it to challenge Roe v. Wade, which recognizes the constitutional right to an abortion.