Automation, climate change and Donald Trump: What kind of future are we in for?
Author Peter Frase combines science fiction and Marxist theory to imagine possible outcomes, for better and for worse.
Honoring Otto Warmbier
How should the United States respond to the detention and subsequent death of an American student who visited North Korea?
How the Biden administration caved to Republicans on fighting election disinformation
Despite a White House pledge to counter dangerous conspiracy theories, the Department of Homeland Security has pulled back on a comprehensive effort to address disinformation to help election workers.
Congress can’t do much about fixing local police – but it can tie strings...
Just past the first anniversary of George Floyd’s killing, people are looking to the federal government to address this issue of national importance.
Groups sue feds to halt fracking in Ohio’s only national forest
“There's no escaping the truth about what fracking will do to Wayne National Forest. Quite simply, it will destroy it.”
The Era Of Private Prisons May Soon Be Over
Homeland Security will review the use of private prisons for immigrant detention.
Report: Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 largest inherited-wealth dynasties accelerate inequality
Fifty dynastic billionaire families hold as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. families. Their wealth grew at ten times the rate of ordinary families over the last 40 years.
Student loan giant’s lost paperwork results in thousands of dismissed loans
The lost paperwork is further evidence that the loan-industry complex is disinterested in acting on behalf of their student-borrowers.
These 33 Cities Cheated on Lead Contamination Tests, Similar to Flint, Michigan
The three “cheats” used by cities include: running the faucet for a while before collecting a sample to flush out the system; removing aerators from faucets before collecting a sample; and running the water slowly.
Forty plus years later & nothing changes
“It took me 13 years before I ever attempted to get a job with a corporation again.”