Learning all the wrong lessons from the 2008 financial crisis
NYT should not fixate on debt as governments respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Gimme shelter too!!
The real crime is that the rents are much higher than if the renter was able to afford a down payment and pay a lower price for a mortgage on the same property!
Reopening day 2020?
Big-time spectator sports are the last things we need...
Amazon workers demand fair pay & conditions as company continues undercutting rivals
While online shoppers around the world flocked to Amazon’s mega-sale “Prime Day” this week, the retail giant faced growing outrage from protesters,...
Native people and allies pledge to stop Keystone XL
Native peoples have a legal, moral, spiritual and inherent right to be caretakers of the planet.
Global inequality is 25% higher than it would have been in a climate-stable world
As is becoming increasingly clear, there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to climate change or inequality.
'David Duke Without the Baggage:' Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign Over Speech to...
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has confirmed he spoke at EURO, a convention founded by perhaps the country’s most notorious white supremacist. Now Republicans will have to decide what that says about their conference.
Cop-hating vandals or Pro-democracy activists?
Depends whose police are being protested.
Seymour Hersh Details Explosive Story on Bin Laden Killing and Responds to White House,...
While the White House claims that Seymour Hersh's explosive story is "riddled with inaccuracies," Hersh sits down in an exclusive interview with Democracy Now to discuss the assassination of Osama bin Laden and responds to criticism.
‘Emergent’ AI behavior and human destiny
Let me take you into that arcane world and try to envision what the future of warfare might mean for the rest of us.