Culture

The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.

Hard as it may be to see beyond the chaos and suffering in Afghanistan, the larger picture reveals real opportunities for social change.

That a perfect opportunity to show a real, if still only potential, attack by the Trump Administration’s Justice Department on the freedom of the press was almost entirely ignored says a lot about the mainstream press’ actual priorities, not only in the U.S. but in most Western countries with less objectionable leaders.

Principled stands taken at great risk are often how movements are born.

Professional sports and professional wrestling tap into a primal level of tribalism that Trump has funneled into a form of nationalism.

Throughout history, the rich have used racism to divide people and thereby entrench themselves.

We can’t ignore the long history of white supremacist violence – and anti-fascist organizing.

March for Our Lives has all the pinnings of a lasting movement. If the adults just let the kids do their thing, then it just might succeed.

Trump like none before unites by being ferociously, obnoxiously divisive. Intended or not, this narcissistic bully is doing his damnedest to overcome entrenched, party divisions we thought fixed in stone.

“They deserve a full investigation and given the context of this history … that we look at them more than three days, and then that they are looked at as a whole.”