Who’s a bigger threat to democracy—immigrants, or billionaires?
Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites.
The Last Time Summer Was This Hot, Human Beings Hadn’t Yet Left Africa
“In other words, it is not clear that we can survive big temperature increases like 6 and 10 degrees C.”
Rising politics of intolerance and the need for unity
Division in any form, including nationalism, and competition go against human nature.
Defining the indefinable Trump void—pumping out sleazy, hot air gibberish to sabotage competent, moral...
Behold the brutal inhumanity of the Trump tornado that “zeroes in on how feeble, confused and impotent his relentlessness can make” vulnerable marks feel.
Biden signs ADVANCE Act to boost nuclear power amid controversy over safety and regulation
President Biden’s signing of the ADVANCE Act aims to accelerate nuclear power development for clean energy and jobs, but critics warn of safety and regulatory issues.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The GOP’s attack on LGBTQ Americans, revealed
The tragic truth is that Don’t Say Gay Laws and health care bans will cause more young lives to be needlessly lost.
The idolatry of gun worship
Christian nationalism and gun violence.
Americide
The most egregious example of "Americide" is our country's treatment of African-Americans. It's exhibited in the many profitable corporations—manufacturers, banks, insurance, railroad—that had their roots in slavery.
Conservation innovations: How sustained resistance is saving one of the Earth’s most critical rainforests...
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.