The people’s Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day let us contemplate the moral injury we do to our nation every day in the never ending wars of the 21st Century.
The gig is up
Gig work is making capitalism harsher.
The myth of the rugged individual
The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make...
Yearly wrap: Handful of good, loads of bad, onslaughts of ugly
Thus, the ugliest consequence to wasting billions on Pentagon missiles rather than funding education—stupidity—is a greater threat even than climate change.
Prospects for a republic beset with disunity 
A republic needs endless work/ Or insurgent forces go berserk.
Harriet Tubman And The Currency Of Resistance
The story of Harriet Tubman, of her courageous resistance to injustice, of her fight to free slaves, for equality for women - all this must be the common currency of our democracy.
Capturing carbon with machines is a failure—so why are we subsidizing it?
Policymakers are pouring money into techno-fixes to solve the climate crisis, even though scientific studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.
Saving the bumblebee starts with changing our farming practices
We are the cause of the bumblebee decline—and the solution.
On John Lewis: Unsolicited advice for Donald Trump
This isn't about being politically correct – this is about being Presidential.
The authoritarian president
The U.S. Constitution was created to stop authoritarians like Donald Trump.