Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children eat ashes
To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.
The Money Primary
Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.
Debt Collectors or Pick Pockets?
Predatory collection agencies are filing bogus lawsuits against hard-hit consumers. This is no minor scam — a third of all adults in the United States are under pursuit by debt collectors.
The Venality of the 2016 Presidential Election
The 2016 presidential race should be referred to as the Money Primary—controlled not by voters, but by super-wealthy donors. And the results are already in!
Green Energy Is Surging and You’ll Never Guess Why
Many countries around the world have adopted wind and solar power for their electricity needs displacing hydrocarbons at a fast rate. Juan Cole highlights the stories illustrating the surge.
FCC’s attack on net neutrality fuels movement for Internet equality and justice
The people of the Internet have power that will not be ignored.
Climate change: All talk no action
Man-made climate change observes no borders, it is a global catastrophe, and, as has been repeatedly said but consistently ignored.
You’re not so different from an octopus: Rethinking our relationship to animals
Animal whisperer, Sy Montgomery, argues that we share greater similarities than differences with our fellow animals, and that fact should make us re-examine our relationships with them.
Why the Islamic State Is the Minor Leagues of Terror
Is it time to panic? Let's put terror threats into perspective for 2016.
The Suicide of the Liberal Church
The liberal denominations and their seminaries, by betraying the poor, especially people of color, in a desperate bid to stay financially solvent, are making themselves obsolete.