Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
The Kimmel fight revealed the anti-Trump opposition’s secret weapon
The people have more power than we realize. And the people in power are terrified of it.
We can’t back people who hate our kids: Kentucky & Minnesota teachers of year...
Dueñas and Holstine skipped the event to register their opposition to Trump’s policies on immigration, education and LGBTQrights.
Seven pointed questions for corporate media about their biases
Unfortunately, many Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere are unduly influenced by mainstream media.
Could Trump end a cruel dog meat festival during U.S.-China trade negotiations?
Even most of the Chinese public wants the inhumane event to be shut down.
How a failing capitalist system is allowing Amazon to cripple America
In the most extreme form of capitalism taxes do not exist. This is called "anarcho-capitalism." Among all corporations, Amazon may be the leading advocate of this philosophy.
Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg
Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address the climate crisis.
Four Reasons Why the Wall Street Journal’s Attack on Bernie Is Bogus
The Wall Street Journal recently dumped on Bernie Sanders' expansion of government based on misinformation and distortion. Now, Robert Reich is responding to the recent article by spreading the truth.
Indigenous culture reasserts women’s power through dance
The colonial legacy of patriarchy undergirds a long, entrenched history of abuse of Native women.