When did societal elites emerge?
The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began farming.
Upstate New York Trump voters hit hard in President’s proposed 2018 budget
Beware the supporter scorned.
Trump’s entire worldview is a nut job conspiracy theory
"Why is everybody always picking on me?"
Real, intact ‘walls’ impede the reactionary Trump/GOP in their tracks
Happy news. What the first six months show us, both about Trump and Senate leadership, is they remain their own worst enemies.
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
How Intellectual Property Rules Help the Rich and Hurt the Poor
While the future may actually be one of continually rising inequality, it is important to realize that technology is not the culprit.
5 ways to stop corporations from ruining the future of work
We should all be able to steer the direction of technological change and influence how new technologies affect our lives.
Right-wing mayhem regorges Social Darwinism, poster child for scandalous, authoritarian bunk
History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.
Apologists for Israel’s mass murder in Gaza fall back on ‘antisemitism’ claims
The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.
The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
There is a widening inequality between the working poor and the non-working rich. The ideal that America’s growing inequality is often justified doesn’t hold up—instead, it's undermining the moral foundations of American capitalism.