Your wish will be granted, Queen
“Let’s play this game I learned. Each of you imagine you’re the Queen, and you’re told that your wish will be granted. What do you wish?”
Jeff ‘Space Cowboy’ Bezos
Space flights used to achieve scientific purpose. Now they're a rich man's carnival ride.
The “great” reopening
Or setting America’s schools up to fail...
‘A step forward’: Black Lives Matter protests forced Biden to push racial equity, but...
Biden’s executive orders are “a step forward” and credits social movements who have been pressuring the administration to act.
American Journalism’s Ideology: Why the ‘Liberal’ Media Is Fundamentalist
If we were to step back from the diversionary label of journalism and evaluate the deeper ideological commitments that shape mainstream news, what are they really? Robert Jensen evaluates an organization’s coverage of environmental news.
Unemployment falls to lowest level since 1969 as economy adds 134,000 jobs
In spite of the unusually low unemployment rate there is little evidence of wage acceleration.
Racism as a public health crisis
Milwaukee’s novel approach to combating racial inequity should inspire other cities.
Papers owned by oligarchs unsurprisingly oppose a wealth tax
It’s true that judges, particularly those appointed by politicians backed by the wealthy, might put barriers in the way of a wealth tax
America’s recovery depends on an infrastructure of care
We urge members of Congress and the administration to pass permanent paid family and medical leave as part of a larger investment in our nation’s care infrastructure.
US press horrified by Trump’s “shoot migrants in the legs” but ignores what Israeli...
The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media managed to report without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy.