Saturday, May 25, 2024

Goodbye to all that

A private investigator on living in a surveillance culture.

Juneteenth for white folk

Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?

‘A Green New Deal, but for guns’: Parkland students propose groundbreaking gun policy

"If we require a license to drive a car, we should certainly require a license to own a gun."

We must be relentless in humanizing Palestinians

The human cost of conflict: reckoning with the dehumanization in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.
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“Brutal and sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on family separation & the U.S. roots of today’s...

More than 400 parents have been deported back to their home countries while their children remain in U.S. custody in facilities scattered across the United States.

This is how white privilege goes to college

The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The super-rich have long relied on “legacy admissions” to get them into their elite college of choice.
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‘It’s our future’: Meet the youth activists behind Fridays for Future Movements in Uganda...

"It is a very important issue for us because it’s us against our future. We either do something now or we don’t have a future."

Tangled in the garden of good and evil

A French television program tackles the tough questions of compliance and resistance.

Media can’t quit ‘Trump supporters support Trump’ stories

As we hurtle into coverage of a presidential election that is still over a year away, media have returned to their timeworn...

The Fempire strikes back

If serial sexual predation disqualifies a man from several high profile jobs, in politics and media, why shouldn’t it disqualify a man from being president of the United States?