How first-time voters led change in a deep-red state
Election night’s most surprising Democratic victory defies the trend of a growing urban-rural chasm.
Koch Brothers Plotting Multimillion Dollar War on Electric Vehicles
The fossil fuel industry is allegedly funding a new organization that will spend $10 million a year to push petroleum-based transportation fuels and attack government subsidies on EVs.
A China-U.S. face-off worth cheering, not fearing
Instead of itching for a new Cold War, our superpowers ought to be itching for greater equality — on both sides of the Pacific.
Solidarity with Venezuela now! Protect the embassy
The Collective feels a responsibility to hold our government to a standard of respecting the rule of law as well as a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Unpacking the uproar over the first Black woman Supreme Court nominee
Dr. Judy Lubin of the Center for Urban and Racial Equality explains why it is important to be intentional about dismantling systemic racism in the coming battle to nominate the next Supreme Court justice.
Colombia, once a pro-U.S. conservative bastion, turns left
Voters in Colombia have picked a powerful new duo, Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez as vice president, to take the nation in a new direction, tackling economic and environmental injustice.
Nuclear weapons: Barbaric tools of insecurity
Sustainable security is not created through threats and the cultivation of fear, but by building relationships, cooperating and establishing trust.
Trump crashing, his supporters agonizing, the Republican Party imploding
When in the world is he finally going to be indicted? Ever or never?
Extorting Ukraine is bad enough
Recently a friend who follows the news a bit less obsessively than I do said, “I thought George W. Bush was bad,...
Opinion: First thoughts on Trump-era science
Stanford researchers Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer suggestions on coping in a world where science suddenly feels devalued.