How to Make Billboards Uglier
At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic: They garishly loom over us, clutter our landscapes and intrude into our communities with no respect for local aesthetics or preferences.
Workers of the Future, Unite
We need to prepare for a future in which advances in productivity – from technology or other sources – are shared more equally than they are today.
Kanye West should visit the Montgomery Slavery Memorial, and take President Trump with him
There is a space in the heart of Alabama that might be just the place for Kanye West to reflect on slavery.
There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like him in the...
It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.
Monsanto targets cancer scientist in flawed Reuters story
The story fails to disclose several key pieces of information.
Corporate media join in editorializing for Press Freedom…for themselves
Mainstream media hypocrisy on display.
Immigrants seeking shelter after Hurricane Florence fear deportation as FEMA shifts funds to ICE
The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.
Amazon’s defeat in NYC galvanizes movement to end billion-dollar corporate welfare
The lawmakers who took down Amazon say their victory is just the beginning of a major fight against tax subsidies for huge companies.
Academic freedom at risk after decades of attacks and underfunding from right wing
We look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom with academic and author Henry Reichman.
Championing female voters as powerful ‘Supermajority,’ organizers launch movement to fight for women’s agenda
"In many ways, women have been doing all this work – whether it's running their PTA, or organizing around reproductive healthcare – but we haven't been doing it together."