We-are-not-them exceptionalism
The making of a lost generation.
Building the Iron Wall
The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun.
Why Activists Fail
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and...
What I learned about nonviolence from Tony Soprano
Through the eyes of an organizer, “The Sopranos” offers many lessons in navigating power and how to wield it.
Older Americans descend into retirement without a golden parachute
The increasing economic burdens on older Americans are part of the growing rallying cry over wealth inequality among progressives.
Here we go: Another IRS problem (and a Bank of America problem)
“I don’t know if you have IRS problems; I do.”
Disaster gentrification in Puerto Rico
Paradise for a wealthy few, the continuation of a long colonial nightmare for the long neglected majority of Puerto Ricans.
Human prehistory—why new discoveries about human origins open up revolutionary possibilities
It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.
ALEC fails to denounce dangerous and racist views of its leaders and members
ALEC has remained conspicuously silent about the dangerous and racist statements and ties of its legislative leaders.
Net neutrality
The biggest loser would be the internet itself, which would be made to surrender its determinedly democratic ethic to the plutocratic rule of corporate profiteers.