How Best to Train the Next Generation of Activists? Give Them Chores
Teaching kids to leave things better than they found them work not only on bedrooms and kitchens, but also on the world's bigger messes.
Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community demands answers after trans black Latinx woman died at...
Layleen’s death came at the beginning of Pride Month and just one day after the NYPD apologized for the first time for its raid a half-century ago on the Stonewall Inn, a gay- and trans-friendly bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.
Eight NFL Scandals Worse Than ‘Deflategate’
Football has become America's pastime, but it's time the sports reporters start covering real NFL scandals and stop focusing on non-stories such as "deflategate." Here are a few leads for reporters to chase.
Leonardo DiCaprio Uses Oscar Speech to Spread Awareness on Climate Change
DiCaprio, who has been nominated several times but won for the first last night, accepted the award for Best Actor for his film The Revenant.
Why Damar Hamlin didn’t die for our sins
I’ve wondered if that specter of sudden death could become a turning point in the history of what’s arguably America’s most popular and perilous pastime.
Dangerous women embracing risk to change the world: Ava DuVernay, Ai-jen Poo, Abigail Disney...
“I didn’t ask for forgiveness ever or permission ever. I just did what I thought was right.”
3 creative solutions to protect water, wildlife, and a warming city
In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”
Contemplating human extinction terrifies most people: A strategy for survival
Given that submissive obedience is the primary behavioral characteristic of all ‘good citizens’, it is going to take a monumental effort to defeat the elite coup and avert the now imminent extinction of Homo Sapiens.
Protesters take net neutrality issue to FCC chair’s home
Pai needs to be personally protested because he comes to the FCC with a personal agenda.
Congress loves socialized health care — for itself
For $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation...