US Supreme Court’s blow to Big Oil ‘should open the floodgates for more lawsuits’
"The high court's decision is a major victory for communities across the country that are fighting to hold Big Oil accountable and make them pay for the climate damages they knowingly caused," said one advocate.
Six questions for a world that seems to be losing interest in democracy
How do we shape a democratic future living in a zeitgeist that is tightening its grip across the globe?
America needs to confront its culture of guns and fear
raising the next generation of kids with fewer guns on the streets, more restrictive gun laws on the books, and a healthy sense of skepticism about mass media may be the best recipe to fight back against a culture of guns and fear.
The theocratic scourge when a fundamentalist minority wars against diverse, majority rule politics
What the savvy Founders elevated was an enlightened chain of being that linked freedom, secular democracy and the exclusion of a state religion.
Big oil firms touted algae as climate solution. Now all have pulled funding
ExxonMobil, the last remaining proponent of green algae biofuel, ends research.
Critics say new revelations in judicial record bolster case for Thomas impeachment
"DOJ is the only agency positioned to truly hold Thomas accountable, because Thomas's conduct is more than unethical—it's likely criminal."
Jack Teixeira, US Airman First Class, faces 15 years in prison for leaking Pentagon...
The leaked documents "revealed U.S. assessments of the war in Ukraine as well as sensitive secrets about American allies."
Fox settlement shows press freedom isn’t incompatible with accountability
Can there be some measure of accountability for victims of defamation by right-wing rage machines like Fox without sacrificing free press rights? Because this settlement showed just that.
A deal with the devil
What’s that tax deduction really worth?
How Republicans are stepping closer to fascism
Authoritarianism is not just an external threat. It’s right here in America.