‘Resisting to exist:’ Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president
“But we are strong, we are resistant. And we are here in this… the 15th encampment, to show to the government, and to all society, that we are alive, that we are resisting to exist."
Dark matter: Too-big-to-fail hibernates in opaque derivatives markets
What you’re seeing here is a dilemma that market purists never quite resolve: They say they want market transparency, and they oppose government regulation.
New report: ABC, CBS, NBC covered climate crisis connection to Hurricane Dorian only once...
"Climate change is fueling storms like Hurricane Dorian. But you wouldn't know that from watching broadcast TV news."
Why activism needs to be part of any meaningful climate education
Simply teaching kids about the science of the climate crisis isn’t enough. To prevent feelings of disempowerment, they need to see how they can make a meaningful impact.
Billionaires made more money in 2017 than any other year in recorded history
Meanwhile, 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty and "5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty."
Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’
It makes little sense if one assumes corporate journalists are primarily concerned with informing the public.
NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter
An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.
2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing indigenous women & more at Native American forum
Following this week’s historic Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, we speak with Mark Trahant, editor of Indian...
One year after Parkland, 1,200 more kids are dead by gunfire – but students still...
Students who survived the massacre quickly came to national prominence as leading activists for gun control.
On Indigenous People’s Day, a look at the movement to revive Native foodways and...
This means that restoring food sovereignty to Native communities requires the re-introduction of indigenous food production, distribution practices and infrastructure, in concert with the re-valuation of traditional ecological knowledge that has long been sidelined from Western notions of science.