The trials of land and water protectors in a world on fire
“Life on Earth can recover from a drastic climate shift by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems … humans cannot.”
What The Media Should Know About Gun Background Checks
Although the details of the plan have not yet been released, several outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will address what is known as the “gun show loophole” or “private sales loophole.”
Weight loss drugs go hand-in-hand with junk food industry
Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not systemic predication.
On day one, the next president should declare a climate emergency
The next president should declare a Climate Emergency, which will give the president powers to act rapidly and decisively to confront the...
The world’s four legacy empires going down
In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.
Why Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots are a desperate attempt to undermine democracy
“It’s ugly, and as un-American as you can get.”
Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation
Investigators have found that laborers on the farm’s coffee plantations were working under degrading conditions and living in substandard housing without sewerage or drinking water.
Warning (if you needed it): Trump is nuts, and he’ll do anything—anything—to win
And he's running for re-election.
Trump is bad at running the country
It seems that what I learned all those years ago in El Salvador is increasingly becoming the essence of Donald Trump’s America.
Women’s March survives and thrives in LA
“There wasn’t just a blue wave, there was a pink wave, and we’re proud of it.”