Friday, December 26, 2025

Racism as a public health crisis

Milwaukee’s novel approach to combating racial inequity should inspire other cities.

Can social movements realign America’s political parties to win big change?

Groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving the old idea of realignment, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

Farming as resistance

Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.

Ants at a pandemic picnic

Now, we see cities throughout Amerika with bars and restaurants open, and millions of us mingling face to face, beer to beer, with no masks.

Thousands of actions nationwide call for culture of nonviolence

Over the course of a week, tens of thousands of people connected the dots between racism, poverty, greed, war, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, and called for justice and a new culture of nonviolence.

Like clockwork, right-wing media exploit DOJ IG report to call for special counsel Mueller’s...

The report had nothing to do with the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.

Facebook condemned for empowering right-wing magazine to “drive liberal news outlets into the ground”

What do you achieve when you let the Weekly Standard operate as a fact-checker for one of the internet's most powerful platforms? "You achieve bullshit."

Top 10 Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism

This week Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all counts in the Boston Marathon bombings. However, there was not much Muslim recognizable in his and his brother's style of life. Here are 10 ways that the Tsarnaev brothers broke Muslim law, according to Juan Cole.
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#Cancelrent: Tenants demand rent relief & organize strikes as unemployment surges due to COVID-19

Tenants around the country are calling for immediate rent cancellation. Some are planning to “rent strike.”

Jeff ‘Space Cowboy’ Bezos

Space flights used to achieve scientific purpose. Now they're a rich man's carnival ride.