Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.
Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.
For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.
Growing my way out of dystopia
Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?
Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
The South is rising again
The real story is that a fresh, "Reclaim the South" movement of young African-American populists is emerging, kindling long-suppressed hope in the racially scarred Deep South.
No, CNN, Trump hasn’t denounced racism
He’s been too busy denouncing Hamilton and SNL and leveraging the presidency for profit.
EPA reportedly helped Paris agreement opponents place op-eds in newspapers
Conservative op-eds argued wrongly that China and India are not taking action.
Facebook is no friend to democracy
If democracy is to survive in this brave new world, mass movements of people will need to organize together to restrain these corporate behemoths and protect our digital commons.
The cleaning lady
She works hard for her money, as the song relates. She's the cleaning lady, the one who gets on her knees and...
Survival of the richest
Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.