Two Ways Racists Kill
While it's a modern and more 'civilized' form of the American tradition of shortening the lives of poor minorities, racism has evolved into a more insidious form. But it still goes on.
Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape
It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.
Can US threats prevent a wider war in the Middle East?
The priority of U.S. officials must be to stop Israel’s massacre, avoid a regional war, and get out of the way so that other nations can help negotiate a real solution to the occupation of Palestine.
#ArsonEmergency? Climate change and Australia’s wildfires
The demonization of environmental activists is nothing new, but the trend toward criminalization is an even more troubling one considering the crisis at hand.
Add November 9th to the mornings I’d rather forget
In the hours after Trump declared victory, some signs of hope and resistance.
Khizr Khan and the wisdom of Gold Star families
"If it was up to Donald Trump, [my son] never would have been in America."
Capitalism, mass anger, and 2024 elections
The mainstream media likewise cannot grasp the relationship of mass anger to capitalism.
Mosul on my mind
What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.
Why the media’s ‘sanewashing’ of Trump is uniquely dangerous
In their attempts to normalize an obviously abnormal candidate, major media outlets risk shirking their responsibility to do the most fundamental job of the free press at their own peril: To tell the truth.
Can we still find common ground?
Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.