Media forget Afghan plight as US sanctions drive mass famine risk
Afghan citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis due in no small part to U.S. sanctions, but where is the outrage?
Banning what matters
What could be more wonderful than a place that allows people to read books, magazines, and newspapers for free?
A huge victory for online privacy advocates
As AT&T and Time Warner plan to merge, new FCC rules on broadband privacy show how today “Big Media” also means “Big Data.”
The battle for Net Neutrality isn’t over
The FCC says the reversal "will protect consumers at far less cost to investment than prior rigid and wide-ranging utility rules."
Joe Arpaio tells CNN that Obama’s birth certificate was phony and he can prove...
CNN let AZ Senate candidate Arpaio have airtime to push false birther claims, but will they give time to Democratic primary candidates?
America’s Shkreli problem
What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?
Goodbye to all that
A private investigator on living in a surveillance culture.
Strongman: Jair Bolsonaro and the unexpected rise of the far right in Brazil
It remains to be seen if Fernando Haddad can rally the country to prevent a Bolsonaro presidency.
Two other pandemics: The lemming and apathy viruses
Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been, for a long time now, those two other ones: The Lemming Virus and the Apathy virus. They only kill what is left of our Republican Democracy... which is not much at all!
An uprising was inevitable
"Being Black in this country means being at war on every front in every space at every moment."