How cop shows serve to reinforce the racism at the heart of our culture
Recognizing that there are many problems, overt and covert, involved in cop shows is important and avoids simplistic narrative solutions being used to plaster over deeper problems.
No accountability: How the civil justice system fails Black Americans killed by police
Having escaped criminal punishment, police officers who shoot and kill Black Americans are often not held to account by the civil justice system either.
The growing myth of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Donald Trump’s lack of curiosity or basic knowledge of the world becomes most dangerous, exacerbating tensions in faraway places that he simply doesn’t understand and views through a prism created by right wing hacks (and his own long held racist views).
World’s 500 richest people gained $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019: Analysis
"A small handful of billionaires should not be able to accumulate more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes while millions of Americans are living in poverty and dying because they can't afford healthcare."
Why scientists marched
As a social scientist myself, I know what goes into a scientist's quest for knowledge and truth. This administration doesn't.
How worker solidarity protects what’s left of the middle class
Union contracts provide decent wages and benefits along with safe working conditions, retirement security and a means for workers to stand up for themselves.
The idolatry of gun worship
Christian nationalism and gun violence.
Can business put people before profits?
Gordon Gekko found religion last week. Gekko, the lead in the 1987 movie “Wall Street” about capitalism gone corruptly amok, is most...
Executive excess: How taxpayers subsidize giant corporate pay gaps
More than two-thirds of the top federal contractors and corporate subsidy recipients paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2017.
End this hidden risk to military families
As we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice, let’s ensure service members and their families are no longer required to relinquish their rights in the name of freedom.