Culture

“But we are strong, we are resistant. And we are here in this… the 15th encampment, to show to the government, and to all society, that we are alive, that we are resisting to exist."

American mainstream journalism isn’t asking the big question: Can capitalism and mankind co-exist? The reason journalists aren’t asking is that they know the uncomfortable answer is: No they cannot.

We can have guns on a limited basis – to provide societal and individual protection, but in a way that will prevent people from using the weapons for illegal or violent purposes.

Governments like the U.S. are not changing harmful foreign policies that are driving conflict and persecution.

At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers. They couldn’t have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.

While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.

The roar of a crowd that believes its collective voice matters stands in quiet contrast to spectacles that ask only for attention, passivity, and allegiance.

“The effect of a wall is already in us. It already divides us… It’s a psychological wall.”

We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .

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