Monday, September 14, 2026

Facebook is no friend to democracy

If democracy is to survive in this brave new world, mass movements of people will need to organize together to restrain these corporate behemoths and protect our digital commons.
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Gaza is already unlivable: A response to Israel’s deadly airstrikes targeting TV station &...

Israel launched its heaviest airstrikes on the region since 2014, targeting scores of buildings, including the TV station Al-Aqsa TV. Israeli airstrikes also reportedly hit dozens of homes.

Can inequality be hardwired into our DNA?

We need more than a moratorium on making inheritable edits in our genetic code. We need a moratorium on people getting rich off of editing our genes.

A jubilee moment in pandemic America?

The poetry of a movement to change this country...

Red Menace # ?????

Instead of having a real 'War on the Pandemic' both the Republicans and Democrats still wish to create a new and better Cold War!

Survival of the richest

Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.

How climate change will affect real lives — now and in the future

To better understand future climate projections, let’s look at how they may play out in the life of someone born in 2000.

Setting the historical record straight for the critics of the New York Times project...

Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619...

Not exceptional. It’s strange.

Here are examples where America is different from other countries...