Why fear and self-hatred destroy human sharing and solidarity
To love yourself truly, you must always courageously act out your own self-will, whatever the consequences.
Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001
Homelessness is becoming more dispersed across major cities in Australia.
Yale law students protest alum Brett Kavanaugh, demand investigation of sexual assault allegations
Yale students will “continue speaking out, speaking to the press, until we feel there is a full and fair investigation.”
Suckers for fat cat sports!!
Do you think these sports divas (owners, players and media) have a great deal?
Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.
Will San Francisco be the second city to tax extreme CEO-worker pay gaps?
In November 2019, SF voters will decide the fate of a proposed tax on corporations that pay their top exec more than 100 times worker pay.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 19
Trump slams door on refugees, China sets tariffs on U.S. goods, Kavanaugh accuser goes into hiding after threats, and more.
Libra: Facebook’s audacious bid for global monetary control
Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated – not in the United...
I walked right up to militarized police at the border
The risk we took at the border is overshadowed by the risks taken by the courageous participants of the migrant caravan.
New study finds $1 trillion worth of food waste generated per year globally
The study is a global estimate on food waste at retail and consumer levels and helps to provide "guidance for countries on improving data collection and suggests best practices in moving from measuring to reducing food waste."