Tag: culture
Legal marijuana is a job creation machine
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.
The growth of popular democracy
Democracy has been hijacked by "the economy" – twinned with capitalism and the "free market," and corrupted thereby.
#NotInvisible: Groundbreaking legislation tackles epidemic of violence against Indigenous women
"Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act."
Championing female voters as powerful ‘Supermajority,’ organizers launch movement to fight...
"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."
Maine becomes latest state to ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples’...
There has been a growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day, which has been a federal holiday since 1934.
Suicide watch on Planet Earth
Even for an old man like me, it’s a terrifying thing to watch humanity make a decision, however inchoate, to essentially commit suicide.
Let’s find many ways to share the goods of our society
Ideas can improve society. But they can also be destructive.
Academic freedom at risk after decades of attacks and underfunding from...
We look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom with academic and author Henry Reichman.
We need an ecological revolution
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.
New report reveals how charter schools have scammed the US government...
There is only one way to deal with this blatant grift program for the charter school industry – shut it down.
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The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.
What you should know about lead contamination in Omaha, Nebraska
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city of Omaha have spent decades trying to clean it up.
How many people have the US and Israel killed in Iran?
Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.