Tag: culture

So far this year, 390 people have been killed by police, according to a Washington Post database of police shootings.

"As anti-choice politicians are escalating attacks on these fundamental freedoms we encourage the entire business community to join us in protecting access to reproductive healthcare in the critical months and years to come."

Legalizing, taxing, and regulating is good for the economy and creates jobs.

We can see this playing out in the states that have legalized marijuana. Early legalizers, Colorado and Washington, saw double-digit jobs growth last year.

Democracy has been hijacked by "the economy" – twinned with capitalism and the "free market," and corrupted thereby.

"Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act."

"In many ways, women have been doing all this work – whether it's running their PTA, or organizing around reproductive healthcare – but we haven't been doing it together."

There has been a growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day, which has been a federal holiday since 1934.

Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide.

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