Our surreal world
Our world, I am thinking, is no longer a real one. It has become a surreal world, a world of irreality, ever since Donald Trump was elected President.
The future may be female but the pandemic is patriarchal
I hope that the rest of us become attached to less polluted air and lower carbon emissions. I hope that we learn to value the lives of women.
College Bowl Games Become Corporate Money Games
College football bowl games are just another piece of our culture that's been purchased for the enrichment of corporate interests. Where did team spirit go?
University of Oxford study concludes Trump’s supporters share widest range of known junk news
A new study concluded that "junk political news and information was concentrated among Trump's supports," which was "mapped from public Twitter and Facebook data."
Look at life and realize what it means
All of us should be striving for a better society as our goal in life.
Koch-funded groups mount PR and media campaign to fight carbon pricing
Worried about momentum for carbon taxes, climate deniers go on attack via right-wing media.
How hypocrites in high places have contributed to the riots in the streets
A decades-long wealth grab by the richest Americans has left millions of Americans on the brink of poverty — and poverty begets violence.
Not exceptional. It’s strange.
Here are examples where America is different from other countries...
Readers didn’t give up on local news. Corporations did.
It’s not that people have given up on local news, but that corporate-owned papers did.
As Coasts Flood, Why Isn’t the Corporate Press Asking Candidates About Climate Change?
It is also possible that corporate capitalism, which both runs the candidates and runs the so-called “news” companies, is about as good at dealing with a rapidly changing environment as the dodo was.