Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Weaponized truth: The Indispensable Movement’s key to success

Sharpening truth with moral outrage and clever, insightful ridicule is precisely how we weaponize it.

Buying homeland insecurity

America’s $50-plus billion annual boondoggle.

We need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’

Our political paralysis enables terrorists of any stripe to acquire as many weapons as they want. 

Taxpayers on hook for $20 billion in dirty energy subsidies annually, new study finds

While the rest of the world moves toward a renewable energy future, dirty energy defenders in the Trump administration are using our taxpayer dollars to promote dangerous new fossil fuel development.

What more is there to say on gun laws?

There comes a point where you feel like there’s nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn’t already been said.

America wasn’t a ‘gun-loving country’ until a $13.5 billion industry made it so

Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns – and mass shootings.

Coca-Cola produced more than 110 billion plastic bottles last year

Coca-Cola has increased their use of single-use plastic bottles over the last decade.

Before the NFL took a knee: 4 lesser-known moments of resistance in sports history

This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.

‘Civil society is pretty much gone’ in Puerto Rico as White House scrambles to...

"We have to think of this as societal collapse: no power, no water, no food, no nothing."

Three insidious ways ‘overtaxed’ corporations are cheating America

The tax money withheld by the big corporations is desperately needed to restore living-wage opportunities to millions of workers.