Saturday, November 7, 2026

Phoenix places 10th on Worst Zoo List, pledges to shut down elephant exhibit

Phoenix Zoo’s decision is part of a growing trend among zoos across North America with about 40 zoos closing their elephant exhibits and many more pledging to close their exhibits.

Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune

Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...

Generation Z more progressive than millennial generation, new survey shows

"Gen Z looks a lot like millennials politically, which is terrible news for Republicans."

Students as teachers

Facing the world adults are wrecking.

Learning from Gandhi

Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. But his legacy lives on. You can learn from it too, if you wish.

3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy

Schools have ample opportunities to include much more about White supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial violence into school curricula.
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Capitalism hasn’t been working for most people for the last 40...

"We haven’t been challenged, to put it in a way. But we are being challenged now, because so many people have done so poorly."

The U.S. is flooding the world with guns. Congress can stop that.

Gun exports reached record levels in 2017 and again in 2018. Can Congress stop Trump from loosening the rules even further?

Football is Trumpball lite

With President Trump, who needs a reality show about violence, domination, and sexism – not to mention brain damage?