Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
Flint’s crisis reveals national failure on school ‘leadership’
Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group of autocratic officials put in charge by...
Libeled by the Washington Post in a ‘false news’ McCarthyite attack on alternative media
Is the Pentagon behind this massive hit on independent journalism?
How to Deal With Your Uncle Bob
In preparation for the holidays, here’s a survival guide for dealing with your right-wing relatives.
The taking of Millennial wealth by rich white Boomers
A booming economy? Yes, for the richest 10 percent, who took 85 percent of the new wealth.
Chomsky: Arrest of Assange is ‘scandalous’ and highlights shocking extraterritorial reach of US
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke to Noam Chomsky about Assange's arrest, WikiLeaks and American power.
Revisiting Orwell’s ‘1984’ in Trump’s America
The new regime evokes past totalitarian states, both historical and fictional.
America, a nation teetering on the edge
The kind of question we the people of America should be asking ourselves, “Can we get along? Why is it that we can’t get along?”
Could tolerant and peaceful bonobos be the model for human peacemaking?
“Both chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest living relatives and therefore studying their social systems and behavior can allow us to trace the evolutionary trajectories of certain phenomenons.”
The problem of surplus White men
White men who are all revved up with no place to go pose the greatest challenge to American democracy.