Thursday, May 15, 2025

Tag: culture

Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life

As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.

The Trump-Musk cultural revolution

Do they want to root out all vestiges of progressivism, liberalism, and secularism from American society?

Why we evolved to dream at night and what dreams mean

We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them?

Why Indigenous-led management is integral to reconciliation and restoration efforts

Indigenous traditional knowledge has the potential to overturn western systems destined for doom.

What we can learn from Gen Z workers

Rather than blame young workers for bad attitudes, we need to understand why Gen Z prioritizes its well-being over company health—and learn from them.

The growing movement to bring back community grief and ritual

A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.

Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect

According to the American Library Association, Texas was home to the most attempts to ban or restrict books in 2022.

NPR falsely claims its reporter is the only one to visit...

This led into a harrowing story of how its reporter arrived in Nicaragua…and reported without incident.

American carnage: To be Black in Trump’s America

While Black people are certainly not the sole target of Trump’s rhetoric and the abuse of like-minded mobs, we are one of the greatest tests of the functioning of American democracy.

When corporate media fail, independent media rise up

Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice, offering platforms to marginalized communities.

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The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large

The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.

Medicaid on the chopping block: GOP budget advances as disabled protesters cry, ‘You will...

Republicans push deep Medicaid cuts in late-night sessions as disabled protesters are arrested, and millions face the loss of life-saving coverage.

‘This is where kids with cancer are’: Israel bombs Gaza hospitals, kills dozens as...

U.S.-backed Israeli strikes destroy hospitals in Khan Younis, killing patients, staff, and journalists as Gaza’s health system nears total collapse under allegations of war crimes.

Poof! It’s gone

The America we once knew...gone!

Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families

The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.