Saturday, November 7, 2026

Trump campaign struck deal with media company for more favorable coverage

The campaign reportedly traded access for interviews broadcast without commentary.

8 billion humans? Population is a difficult conversation, but we need to start getting...

It’s time to rethink our broken and unfair family planning systems.

From fringe idea to law of the land — a look inside the creativity...

Beautiful Trouble examines the principles and theories guiding this growing insurrection in defense of Black lives.

What happened to Roseanne? The same thing that happened to lots of white people.

The Trump movement uses racism and immigration to turn the Roseanne Barrs of the world from eco-feminists to Trump supporters.

The second sight of W.E.B. Du Bois

Du Bois would hardly fare better today. His radical critique of empire and capitalism would make him even more of a pariah in the academy and on the airwaves.

Teachers are on a tightrope with no safety net

The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support.

Net neutrality

The biggest loser would be the internet itself, which would be made to surrender its determinedly democratic ethic to the plutocratic rule of corporate profiteers.

A million extinctions eclipsed by one royal grandbaby

Mainstream media gave more time to the royal baby’s birth in the week he was born than to all stories about the climate crisis in all of 2018.

Reasons for optimism

Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.

Why are there 40 million people in the US living below

If change can be achieved, it should be a combination of substantial taxes on those with wealth, and programs that offer essential elements of a good life to all in the society.