Tag: culture

Ideas can improve society. But they can also be destructive.

We look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom with academic and author Henry Reichman.

To save the long-term future for our children and grandchildren, and for all the other creatures with which we share the gift of life, we must overcome the inertia of our institutions and our culture.

There is only one way to deal with this blatant grift program for the charter school industry – shut it down.

Interviews with 11 Black Lives Matter social media page administrators highlight the challenges of scaling grassroots activism through digital organizing.

We need to work very hard to remove this bigotry, racism, and xenophobia from our country before this condition becomes irreversible.

Research shows that small talk and casual connections create happy communities and less-lonely individuals.

Activists from Lady Parts Justice and Code Pink joined Media Matters in confronting the stream of hate that seems to be only escalating from President Trump's favorite news network.

State laws and policies in California have made some progress possible, but many tribes still lack legal recognition and struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and the environment.

Can America still follow its principles of liberty and equality but have a far broader set of free social services (education and healthcare like the fire and police departments)? I think that it can. And if it does, it will have the sort of society that we want – not an oligopoly or crony capitalist one.