Thursday, April 25, 2024

What the coronavirus says about us

Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.

Preparing for the coming transformation

It is critical for us to step out of the limitations of two and four year election cycles and recognize that social transformation does not arise by electing the perceived least evil.

Thieves in the suites

After all, some of society's most inventive minds are flimflammers, Ponzi-schemers, gamers and embezzlers.

Don’t just resist. Return to who you are

"The idea of Indigenous resurgence is resonating with young people."

These are the corporations behind Trump’s Muslim ban

While it is important to hold our public officials accountable for their role in promoting the Muslim ban, we cannot stop there.

Bernie Sanders to re-introduce $15 minimum wage bill to new Congress

Current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 2009.

Hightower up against the corporate wall

Earlier this week, Creators’s Syndicate informed Hightower they were not going to distribute his weekly article.

How movements can use drama to seize the public imagination

Drama is useful in getting attention for our issues. The Sunrise Movement is only one of the recent movements that grew by...

Women continue to contribute in record numbers heading into 2020

However, it appears that many networks of prominent donors, including powerful women, are staying out of the presidential fundraising race for now.

Denouncing corporate climate profiteers, comedy icon Lily Tomlin arrested at #FireDrillFriday protest in DC

"These corporations are making oodles of money on the front end, oodles of money on the back end. It is beyond reprehensible."