Wednesday, September 16, 2026

On America’s residential caste system—and how to abolish it

Are segregated U.S. cities organized as a residential caste system?

The Most Important Campaign Speech: Bernie on the Banks

The most important campaign speech this political season broken down piece by piece.

Morning news’s embarrassing response to net neutrality vote

The flagship morning news shows on broadcast and cable news covered net neutrality for less than four minutes combined.

Federal judge won’t block voter ID law that strips Native Americans of their voting...

The decision means that potentially thousands of Native Americans will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections.

In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too pricey

Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.

In ‘glimmer of accountability,’ executives, loggers charged in 2014 murders of four Indigenous land...

Environmental campaigners called the charges "unprecedented."

How awesome is ‘awesome’?

Will the U.S. military under Lloyd Austin's leadership recover its long-lost awesomeness?

Social media giants’ climate misinformation policies leave users ‘in the dark’: report

"Despite half of U.S. and U.K. adults getting their news from social media, social media companies have not taken the steps necessary to fight industry-backed deception," reads the report.

Living in an age of desire and anxiety

What is causing this epidemic?