Legal marijuana is a job creation machine
We can see this playing out in the states that have legalized marijuana. Early legalizers, Colorado and Washington, saw double-digit jobs growth last year.
Media must stop asking youth activists to ‘save the world’
Why should it be the responsibility of teenagers to “save the world” in the first place?
What The Media Should Know About Gun Background Checks
Although the details of the plan have not yet been released, several outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will address what is known as the “gun show loophole” or “private sales loophole.”
North Dakota vs. Amy Goodman: Journalism Is Not a Crime
We will fight this charge. Freedom of the press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society. North Dakota, muzzle the dogs, not the press.
‘Epic Fail:’ Feminism and Ecological Crises
It seems homo sapiens’ domination of Earth is coming to an end as the result of today’s processes of resource extraction and waste generation. What can we do to change this trajectory, and is this conversation unavoidable?
A united front is the right strategy to defeat authoritarianism
With a second Trump term, all hope of progressive change is gone. With a Biden Presidency, with hard work and mass mobilization, there is at least a chance for a better and more progressive America.
America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US tax system
A new report reveals that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.
2020: The year anti-fascists became terrorists
When police in Buffalo pushed an elderly man to the ground during a Black Lives Matter protest, cracking his skull in the process, the president went on Twitter to rhetorically ask whether the injured man was, in fact, part of “Antifa”.
Medicating isolation
Drug use in the COVID-19 moment.
Why Activists Fail
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and...