Sunday, April 6, 2025

Cops killing kids has got to stop!!

Offing unarmed adults is bad enough.

Dollars for decency

Unlike politicians who only have to survive elections every few years, corporations have to keep their consumers content all the time.

Wildfires can reduce biodiversity—can biodiversity be used to reduce wildfires?

A biodiversity experiment in Australia showed animal species can help reduce flammable leaf litter by 24 percent.

Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from cynical profiteers

Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.

America last

Will Trump set a record for the history books?

Writing as Resistance

Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.

Rise of the New Black Radicals

Ongoing police brutality against young black men and women in the U.S. has given birth to a new young black militant—the new black radicals. It's time we say enough is enough. "That’s the only way oppression will ever leave.”

Let’s Talk About Hillary Clinton and Saudi Arabia

U.S. activists must follow the example of our European allies and demand that our government stop supplying the Saudi rulers with weapons to bomb civilians in Yemen and repress its own citizens.

Mr. President, defiant denialism violates the ultimate political commandment: Win with your best shot

How much insight is needed to project the frailty of the last many months into an electoral NO on any four year bet?

Will gun-shy Dems ever learn this core (if alarming) Trump lesson—relentless promotion serves up...

Democrats must treat voters as consumers who view politics (rightly) as “another marketable product.” A coherent party must deliver big, core, election-winning achievements—if only to avoid a mid-term bloodbath.