What wildfires do to our minds
A Northern California community offers mental health first-aid to survivors of devastating fires.
Pundits Across Political Spectrum Blast Trump For Declining To Disavow Support From KKK
Media are lambasting Trump for not unequivocally distancing himself from the support of white supremacists, saying his failure to do so "is disqualifying,"
‘Shame on you!’ Protesters interrupt Trump admin promoting coal & fossil fuels at UN...
Protesters at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, as they interrupted a Trump administration event promoting coal and other fossil fuels.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2
Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.
A child at world’s end
A mother thinks about the inheritance of children.
Was Goldman’s CEO ‘inspiring’ or good for the Economy? Nope, and nope
Lloyd Blankfein and his peers are strangling genuine growth, turning a productive economy into a financialized one, and driving up already-unsustainable levels of inequality.
Study linking US sanctions to Venezuelan deaths buried by Reuters for over a month
Western media outlets are perfectly willing to ignore their own reporting when it suits powerful interests.
Walling in the opioid crisis?
Mr. President, if you want to tackle a genuine national emergency and are eager to spend another $5.7 billion or far more on a project that will, in the end, make you look better to everybody, including your base, take on the opioid epidemic.
The key to a sustainable economy is 5,000 years old
In ancient Mesopotamia, writing off debts worked brilliantly well for two millennia.
Trophy hunting – can it really be justified by ‘conservation benefits’?
Killing animals for fun is an activity which divides opinion. It can also be a highly emotive issue, with high profile cases...