Culture

In ancient Mesopotamia, writing off debts worked brilliantly well for two millennia.

Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?

"A small handful of billionaires should not be able to accumulate more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes while millions of Americans are living in poverty and dying because they can't afford healthcare."

The lesson of these past victories is that successful change depends not on majority opinion, but on the ability of the key participants in a system to disrupt that system.

What we need to make a better society for most working stiffs out there is community owned and operated nonprofit rental housing.

Trump may have derided sh*thole countries, but he and his ilk are exactly the people who have turned America into one.

Right-wing media have been smearing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, by comparing his ideology to that of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Experts have called the comparison “inaccurate,” “outrageous,” and “a trivialization of history.”

Behind the White House's demeaning "food box" idea is a plan to eliminate food aid for poor people completely.

Class conflict in Red State America.

Native American tribes sue Trump over Keystone XL. Japan aims to overthrow whaling ban, and more.