Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Bill, Melinda, and the burden of grand fortune

All relationships, not just romantic couplings, tend to be twisted by wealth.

Growing my way out of dystopia

Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?

How payday lenders spent $1 million at a Trump resort – and cashed in

At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers. They couldn’t have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.

Blood and soil!

What both those storm troopers of 90 years ago and this new breed of lemmings should be saying is "Yeah, Our blood and Their soil!" as to who really calls the shots for their actions.

Life imitates art: Does diversity in media have any impact on the real world

Diversity in media is not just impactful, it is essential.

Fifty years after Stonewall, the real fight for LBGTQ rights is local

Forty-five years after the first Equality Act, our national understanding of gender has changed significantly.

The war on women is still on

In Trumpistan, legislative attempts to ban abortion are a blatant sign that women are under attack.

It’s time for an organizing revival

We need to turn that awakening into sustained power to win tangible change in people’s lives.

How do 2,800 migrant children in detention spend the holidays?

Activists camped outside a sprawling tent city in the Texas desert bring a message to migrant children detained there: No estás solo. You are not alone.

The problems with the bank

For some reason the Bank became hung up on mobile phones – and only AMERICAN phones.