Friday, November 13, 2026

We are living through a paradigm shift in our understanding of human evolution

An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution.

The next wars are always here

Because the next wars were always here, looming. We just need the clarity to see them and the force to stop them before they begin.

Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain

An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.
A gas station price sign in New York, May 2026. Photo: Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Highest Gasoline Prices ever in Aug., as US-Iran Tit for Tat Strikes Continue

Americans paid nearly $60 billion more at the pump this spring than a year earlier, and the Gulf shipping crisis shows no sign of easing before the price hits again.

Hormuz, Mandeb, Black Sea: Wars and diesel chokepoints spike world inflation

Will working families be hurt by higher food and fuel costs this year because of Trump’s attack on Iran?
The U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Latest sanctions on Iran risk strengthening Tehran and undermining US credibility

Two London-based political scientists argue the sanctions could backfire, uniting Iran's government against outside pressure while costing the US diplomatic credibility abroad.

Corporate greed exposed: Kroger admits to price gouging on milk and eggs amid antitrust...

A top Kroger executive admits to inflating milk and egg prices above the rate of inflation

Atomic Bill and the Payment Due

The play is “a true story about media manipulation at the dawn of the Atomic Age and the New York Times reporter who sold his soul to get the story.” 

Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes

The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
Firefighters working a wildfire line

Trump administration’s mass layoffs at NIOSH gut program investigating firefighter deaths

A ProPublica investigation found the April cuts reached the unit that reviews line-of-duty fire deaths and a landmark firefighter cancer registry, though the administration later reinstated some staff.