Tag: culture
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.
The Hard Hat Riot: A forgotten flashpoint in America’s culture wars
The Hard Hat Riot had immediate political consequences—a seminal moment in America’s culture wars.
To restore nature, we must invest more in our children
Understanding the connection between women’s and children’s rights, family planning, and the environmental crisis.
We are living through a paradigm shift in our understanding of...
An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution.
The massive roadblocks standing in the way of American greatness
Can the America of today be considered one of the greatest nations in the world?
Nepo babies and the myth of the meritocracy
Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.
How to survive us
Young people need real information and analysis, survival skills and resources.
Successful tool lending libraries force us to rethink what the public...
Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and devices and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.
Burning books (or rather book companies)
Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.
Four Black women who have advanced human rights
The four introduced here are inspirational—for the changes they brought about, for their work ethic, and for their passion to improve the everyday lives of marginalized or oppressed groups.
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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way to volleyball practice
Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and fossil fuel agenda
Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.
Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission to Gaza
A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.
‘Another aid massacre’: Israeli military kills dozens near privatized Gaza food site
For the third consecutive day, Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food at a controversial U.S.-backed aid site, raising international outcry and renewed calls for accountability amid a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe.