Wednesday, October 28, 2026

A New Year’s development resolution

As 2016 comes to an end, so should the old modes of economic thinking that have produced so much economic hardship and fueled so much tumult.

A poignant poem that encapsulates 2016

Bill Moyers shares "Starting with Black," which addresses the "urgent political and moral crisis" that we currently face.

200 DHS employees accepted nearly $15M in bribes

Responsible for guarding more than 7,000 miles of the border, customs agents and Border Patrol officers accepted the most bribes within the last ten years.

20 photos: My seven months of living at Standing Rock

The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.

Donald Trump’s new nuclear instability

Donald Trump's finger on the nuclear trigger is a terrifying prospect.

Get ready for an all-out assault on social security by Washington in 2017

It is a critical time for this organizing to begin because the attack on Social Security promises to be rapid and brutal.

President Obama created two new national monuments and Republicans are furious

Republicans vow to undo President Obama's new designations, but do they have the power to do so?

It wasn’t all bad: 5 signs of positive change in 2016

The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017.

My wishes for Obama’s parting shots

In the waning days of his administration, I’d recommend Obama take the following last stands.

The 500 richest people in the world got $237 billion richer in 2016

Everything’s bigger in Richistan.