Friday, November 6, 2026

Share the wealth? We can start now – here’s how

Corporations have, in effect, become inequality’s single most powerful engine. We need to slow that engine down.

‘Elon, there are rules’: EU says Twitter must comply with new Digital Services Act

"If [Twitter] does not comply with our law there are sanctions—6% of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe."

Netflix and Bill Nye are saving science – 30 minutes at a time

With Netflix’s ascendancy and the way it’s changing viewing habits, “Bill Nye Saves the World” may be a huge opportunity for science education.

A pledge to transform the resistance, and America

If today’s resistance is to become a lasting movement, we must decide what we’re for.

Student debt reaches more than $1 trillion – an all-time high

"We are crushing the next generation with debt."

Victory for workers: Connecticut passes legislation raising state’s minimum wage to $15

Connecticut now joins New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland by passing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.

America: Lost with no moral compass

In 2014 a story broke about a high school football team hazing syndrome that regressed into sexual assaults by upperclassmen upon freshman...

Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Costa Rica—first in Central America

"This change will cause a significant social and cultural transformation of the country."

Stopping crime by removing incentives

We can eliminate the need to use crime for economic support by providing economic support.

Save our endangered cartoonists

Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas. These are the newspaper...