Tuesday, June 16, 2026

From farm to table, women in the US food system are speaking up about...

The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.

How to have a happy humanity

I am sure that we could solve worldwide issues of poverty, climate change, and health. Our efforts involving happiness should be made with respect to all peoples everywhere.

We saved net neutrality once. We can do it again.

Just a few years ago, powerful grassroots pressure rose up to protect a free and open internet.

Job growth remains slow in September, but unemployment rate falls to 3.5 percent

Manufacturing employment hit a record low as a share of private sector employment.

Yance Ford: The first transgender director nominated for an Oscar

"If my nomination can help in any way to advance the issues of trans-equality and protection for LGBTQ people under the law, then I am as humbled by that as I am by the nomination."

America’s addictions

It goes beyond opioids – America is addicted to Donald Trump and war.

We are being out-evolved

As we have anointed our own species Homo sapiens, the wise men, I’d say it’s time to reassess. I’m thinking Stultus homines, Stupid men.

How liberals left the white working class behind

White working-class anger has been simmering for decades, due to globalization, wage stagnation, and the myth of meritocracy.

‘Massive victory for the whole internet’ as California passes nation’s strongest net neutrality bill

"AT&T and Comcast spent enormous amounts of money lobbying to kill SB 822. They almost succeeded more than once, but we fought back."