How Mainstream Is Bernie Sanders Really?
A democratic socialist and all, Bernie Sanders isn't being taken seriously by the corporate media. But to mainstream media's surprise, Sanders’s positions are quite mainstream to the stances of the general American public.
More than a dozen banks finance gun manufacturers and the assault weapons industry
More than a dozen banks support five of the largest gun manufacturers connected to countless shooting tragedies in America.
Why we should change how we talk about nonhuman animals
We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?
Making sense of reactionary victim culture
Along with their portrayal of themselves as the real victims of made up or almost entirely online concepts like ‘cancel culture’, many on the right from politicians to pundits also excel at projection.
Media malpractice: Blacking out genocide and disenfranchising Palestinian pain
American media’s Israel bias and censoring journalists.
How Exxon used the New York Times to make you question climate science
These oil companies were not as naive or uncertain as they long pretended to be.
Little Rock, Arkansas launches program that invests in the city’s homeless population
The program is a “day's work for a day's pay and access to resources that will help them get to the next step to create the life that they want."
Legalizing divorce: A battle between church and state in the Philippines
The Instituting Absolute Divorce and Dissolution of Marriage in the Philippines Act is being condemned by the Catholic Church citing "social costs" as a result of the bill.
The evidence pours in: Poverty getting much worse in America
As one of the most unequal nations in the entire world, America is also, in many ways, one of the most poverty-stricken.
Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.