12 ways communities are taking care of each other during the pandemic
The efforts range from a Slack chat community connecting people around the world to suggestions about what to do with your stimulus check.
The IMF showed the world how not to celebrate International Women’s Day
The IMF’s appeals for women’s economic stability in the recipient countries of their loans are a slap in the face to the women who are living proof of the IMF’s indifference to the human suffering they cause.
For Indigenous Peoples Day, tribes return to Alcatraz 50 years later
The Stop Mauna Kea and Standing Rock occupations owe a debt to the legacy of an intertribal takeover that occurred 50 years...
A kingdom where nobody dies
America’s childhood, a kingdom we’ve surrendered for no good reason at all.
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.
Florida is just one state where it is easier to buy a gun than...
It's also harder to get birth control and purchase over the counter medications, such as Sudafed, than it is to buy a gun.
Our celebrity president and his media accomplice
Celebrities need an accomplice and Trump understood, after all those years of collaborating with the media, that they would fulfill that role for him with wall-to-wall coverage.
‘What to the slave is the 4th of July?’: James Earl Jones reads Frederick...
On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.”
Male voices dominate the news. Here’s how journalists and female experts can turn this...
You might expect the gender ratio of people quoted in the news would mirror the gender split of our society. But that's not the case.
21st Century Amerika, A Reality Show
“As our cities and towns crumble, literally and financially, we are ready to anoint one of these two predators as the new stooge of empire.”