Solidarity with #NoDAPL strengthens all of us
One of the most important lessons from the Indigenous that we should embed into our decision-making is that we are not only making decisions for ourselves.
How Big Pharma Is Trying to Improve Its Image
If you wonder why Congress keeps ignoring what the people want it to do — while doing things that people don't want it doing — take a peek at the unique PR campaign now being run by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
In the face of big environmental challenges, our everyday actions are part of the...
David Wallace-Wells’s new book on climate change offers a powerful warning, but misses the mark on the importance of small, individual efforts.
“In this together”: Vietnam and New Zealand in the time of social distancing
One thing that’s striking about the examples being set by both Vietnam and New Zealand is how important social solidarity has been to successfully confronting this highly contagious disease.
Rampaging Debt Collectors are Committing Highway Robbery
Every year, the debt collection firms routinely abuse the law and overload our courts by rotely filing hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against debtors.
Omar Mateen and Right-Wing Homophobia: Was Florida Massacre a Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?
If it was about gay marriage, well, there is a lot of political opposition to that on the Republican Right, and violence against gays has been a feature of the American far right.
More than ‘moron,’ more like plague
Would that Trump were only or simply “a moron.” The problem is worse, but the solution is getting clearer.
Media attacked, journalists murdered: Democracy eroded
Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.
“They were so close”: Israel kills medics trying to save dying 6-year-old Hind Rajab
"It is extremely important. The life and the story of Hind should not be end in this way."
Rahm Emanuel is right on core party changes, but for progressives misses the big...
“The bullies don’t stop hitting you because you’re nice to them. They stop hitting you when you knock them out.”