Friday, July 10, 2026

Big Food raking in huge profits from price hikes as US hunger persists: Analysis

"It's time Congress do more to rein in corporate greed, one of the main factors currently driving up costs for families."

Why a new progressive era in America is likely—in about 20 years

All these trends point to a new progressive America.

How urban planners disenfranchised black communities in west Oakland

“The planning profession has to reconcile that because they have been complicit in this whole issue, not only in Oakland, but in cities all across the country.”

2024: Dread and hope

Saving our civilization from impending environmental disaster is perhaps the one issue capable of uniting us.

The army we don’t see

The private world that our post-9/11 conflicts have bred.

Testing finds toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in common US food pesticides

The results of the recent tests suggest that at least some of the agricultural products are being contaminated with PFAS from unknown sources.

Jury in civil case finds Trump sexually abused, defamed E. Jean Carroll

Lisa Bloom called on the New York Legislature to "extend the CRIMINAL statute of limitations for sex crimes so Trump can be criminally prosecuted for the sexual abuse that this civil jury found Trump committed."

What is more evil than pure evil?

“Rationalization is the evil step-brother of rationality.”

Are the best years of my country behind me?

Reflections on a long-ago tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site.