Whose planet are we on?
What happens when LTAI (less than artificial intelligence) gives way to AI?
The idolatry of gun worship
Christian nationalism and gun violence.
The real reason Disney is defying DeSantis
A corporation does not have morals—it has a bottom line. Disney’s lawsuit against Florida is more about being able to reap profits while underpaying workers than it is about protecting LGBTQ communities.
We must not dance, Harry Belafonte understood, to a billionaire beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
The theocratic scourge when a fundamentalist minority wars against diverse, majority rule politics
What the savvy Founders elevated was an enlightened chain of being that linked freedom, secular democracy and the exclusion of a state religion.
‘Not surprised, but disgusted’: Fox avoids trial by settling with Dominion for $787.5 million
Critics said the financial agreement robbed the public of a trial that would have exposed the news network's lies about fraud during the 2020 election and its behind-the-scenes operations.
What American media won’t tell us about the Putin/XI Meeting, Part II
An authoritarian approach to such a threat can never work – democracies have to lead.
90 seconds to midnight
The question now is whether such a 12:01, a future without the Doomsday Clock, without the existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change is even imaginable.
We are living through a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution
An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution.
Blockbuster exposé confirms H.G. Wells’ truism that “human history” is “a race between education and catastrophe.”
Gayle Greene’s “Immeasurable Outcomes” presents an impassioned manifesto to revive quality, democratic education that redeems college teaching and re-seeds enlightened, disaster-averting voters.