Wheels coming off
What unifies this country: Common values and common knowledge.
The Gilded Age of animal advocacy: A transformative era for America’s moral compass
Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.
Climate change demands an end to excess and greed
The responsibility for halting climate change rests firmly with each and every one of us.
Robber Barons on the march – what kind of backlash faces crisis-inducing, know-it-all oligarchs...
When did callous “austerity politics” suddenly make sense to the complaining impoverished?
Chris Hedges explains the importance of ‘robust’ public broadcasting
Hedges elaborates on why airtime for these “dissident voices” is more crucial than ever before.
How the Russia spin got so much torque
Tone deaf hardly describes the severe political impairment of those who insist that denouncing Russia will be key to the Democratic Party’s political fortunes.
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have...
Why the internet itself is a major environmental problem
If the internet were a country, it would be the sixth biggest user of electricity.
‘Contrition fantasy’ – the impossible quest from shameless, conscienceless lowlifes
Every judge who fails to enforce authority and ignore transparent, cynical evasions becomes an enabler of the scofflaw.
American Greed: Trump’s Economic Team Is a Who’s Who of What’s Wrong
The America Trump describes is a dark dystopia, competitive and divided and brutal. Now he’s assembled a team that could make that nightmare a reality.