Monday, December 22, 2025

The Leadership Institute: Conservative PR school

Trumpism, most unfortunately, is still with us—as is The Leadership Institute with its arch right-wing operation, now extending globally.

Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?

Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

Must climate change dinosaurs go extinct before getting started on serious eco-energy reforms?

The entire resource/energy problem is as simple to understand as it is hard to resolve.

The real reason teachers are quitting

Defend our teachers. Pay our teachers. Value our teachers. The work they do determines our future. 

Eulogy for a Friend

Chris Hedges recently delivered this eulogy for his friend and former divinity school classmate, the Rev. Terry Burke, who spent 31 years as the pastor of the First Church Jamaica Plain in Boston.

Disposable Children

Wealthy Americans are justifying the neglect of our nation's children by blaming the victims—children of the poor. In a perversely unequal nation, are children of all ages deemed disposable?

The secret Republican plan to unravel Medicaid

Don’t be fooled. Spread the word.

Western lies and false narratives about Ethiopia

Ethiopia and the appalling coverage by corporate media.