Thursday, April 25, 2024

Why Closing the Digital Divide Will Strengthen America and Help US Workers

With huge disparities in internet access across America, building out the information superhighway will be as essential as modernizing roads and bridges as the nation strives to rebound from the pandemic, grow a more powerful economy and forge a brighter future for all.

Why reward bad corporate behavior with more tax breaks?

"Why are you even considering giving more tax breaks to corporate giants?"

Close Guantanamo—Then Give It Back to Cuba

This week is the 13th anniversary of the first post-9/11 prisoners arriving at Guantanamo Bay. This has people wondering: is it time to put an end to this dark chapter of U.S. history, close the prison and return the land to Cuba?

‘Foolish Knavery’ Drives the Campaign Stunt To ‘Make Trump Great Again’—and Monetize His Looming...

Who needs top staff advice since being the most electable candidate was not the real goal?

Abuses that Wouldn’t Exist in a Socialist America

"Our current capitalist-driven inequalities will only be rectified when people realize that a strong community makes successful individuals, not the other way around." Paul Buchheit discusses the few ways we would benefit with a social democracy.

Buying homeland insecurity

America’s $50-plus billion annual boondoggle.

Journalism as Subversion

Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?

How America’s ego could save the planet

We need some of America’s ego now, just like 60 years ago, when the Soviet accomplishments in space drove us toward a singular world-changing goal.

Voices From the Front Lines of the Flint Water Crisis

Two parallel investigations, state and federal, are underway in an attempt to determine if any crimes have been committed.

Did Drought and Climate Change Cause Middle Eastern States to Collapse in 2014?

The collapse of the Middle Eastern states is pointing to climate change as one culprit. The already bad climate problems in the Middle East will only get worse over the next 50 years.