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Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica from its site after the data analytics company openly admitted to helping the "Trump campaign pull off its narrow win in key swing states."

The fact that a handful of companies produce the majority of our food means that small disruptions will have big impacts. This time the impacts are borne by American babies.

Mark Changizi’s study offers a scientific and anthropological explanation for a phenomenon many take for granted.

Perhaps it is time for someone in the media to investigate its conduct.

If we cannot persuade the global power elite to respond sensibly to that predicament, or nonviolently compel it to do so, humanity’s time on Earth is indeed limited.

Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been, for a long time now, those two other ones: The Lemming Virus and the Apathy virus. They only kill what is left of our Republican Democracy... which is not much at all!

A network of public banks including a central bank operated as a public utility could similarly fund a U.S. Green New Deal – without raising taxes, driving up the federal debt, or inflating prices.

If Trump were a reader of history, he might know that calling someone “Pocahontas” is actually a compliment, not an insult.

A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.

There was once a literate public. This is gone now, replaced by a vast burlesque.