Sunday, May 19, 2024

Are men more corrupt and sexually aggressive?

We, the electorate, didn’t vote for politicians so that they could latch onto women, nor so that they could rob us blind.

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2018 around the world

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization, but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights."

A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!

Other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, begrudge plenty and have specific proposals for changing the rules that let wealth keep concentrating.

The con of diversity

Diversity in the hands of the white power elites – political and corporate – is an advertising gimmick.

Is the right wing ‘whitewashing’ the history curriculum taught in public schools?

A fight over new history curriculum standards in Virginia is part of a nationwide campaign to undermine public schools and prevent educators from teaching the truth about America’s inequality.

The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts

This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.

What’s a ‘black identity extremist’? Groups demand Trump Dhs release ‘race paper’

We must be especially intolerant of racism when it appears as official government policy, enshrined in secret documents in black and white.

Redacting democracy: Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of American history

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.

Betsy DeVos needs an education on ethics

The student loan sharks who prey on veterans and single moms have a friend in Trump's education secretary.

Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom

As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.