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.
When witnessing becomes activism
Witnesses, whether by accident or vocation, help to shape how societies understand social upheaval and respond to social change.
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.
Human zoos in the age of Trump
Humans as “animals,” then and now.
More than a thousand arrested as Yellow Vests protests over economic frustration rage on...
Some 1,220 people were arrested in France on Saturday as more than a hundred thousand took to the streets – leading to a lockdown...
“Brutal and sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on family separation & the U.S. roots of today’s...
More than 400 parents have been deported back to their home countries while their children remain in U.S. custody in facilities scattered across the United States.
5 ways small actions have huge power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
16-year-olds want to vote – and states are starting to listen to them
“We know that the earlier we can get people voting, the more likely we can keep them voting for the rest of their lives.”
I’ve covered seven mass shootings. These are the memories that haunt me.
Columbine High School. Platte Canyon High School. Virginia Tech. Deer Creek Middle School. Aurora movie theater. Arapahoe High School. Santa Fe High School. ProPublica reporter Jenny Deam reflects on covering them all.
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.