Voices for Change
Nuclear power plants pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction
The global crisis it now embodies was foreseen 45 years ago by Bennett Ramberg, in his book “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril.”
Will teachers save our democracy?
A new book by teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten explains “why fascists fear teachers.”
What if every American entering the government had to take a lie detector and...
Let's explore a fictitious scenario in which every person who wanted to be considered for a government job would have to take both a lie detector and a mental test, and pass them, to be accepted.
Hegseth: The gathering, post-mortem: ‘No more dudes in dresses…No more beardos’
Trump and his minions do not deal with history or reality, only a mish-mash of self-serving fantasies.
The Kimmel fight revealed the anti-Trump opposition’s secret weapon
The people have more power than we realize. And the people in power are terrified of it.
Exploring the high rates of social violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Many factors contribute to this, but long-term solutions remain difficult to achieve.
The choice is now Trump vs. Jesus as a profane president rejects Christianity’s highest...
Trump the unlettered con man wouldn’t learn right from wrong if Jesus taught the class.
Newsom’s radioactive hypocrisy on green energy
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.
But it’s an infuriating radioactive...
How data-driven storytelling helps good causes get funded
Nonprofits play a crucial role in holding communities together, and combining powerful stories with real data is essential to securing the support they need to continue making a difference.
Will artificial intelligence (AI) only serve billionaire dominance—or end up educating, even dispelling lies?
Potential AI benefits for the people won’t come easy and there’s never a free lunch for truly mind-boggling new gadgetry with enormous potential.
When did societal elites emerge?
The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began farming.
The only way to stop Israel’s genocide: an embargo by a consortium of countries
Embargoes: how to bring peace to Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding Middle East.
Fascists don’t deserve space: Our humanity is not up for debate
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, centrist liberals have lionized the white supremacist, paving the way for a greater assault from authoritarian bullies.
Censorship is a structural problem: Huge corporate power, not just a president, is muzzling...
Donald Trump + Corporate Media Conglomeration = Censorship
3 Trump has torched atomic power’s last illusion of credible regulation
But the low-cost zero-carbon tsunami of green Solartopian technology may yet prove unstoppable in the marketplace.
How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working people
They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.
Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain
An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.
The right reaps what it sows: Violent means spawn violent ends
Here’s bloodlust vendetta on display,/Indisputable, profane cosplay.
America is ‘exceptional’ now as barbaric pariah, starring MAGA wrecking balls that batter collective...
Just as the world obeys unchangeable physical laws, so there are fixed thresholds in the economic and political world.
How gerrymandering undercuts workers’ freedom
To me, this is the end of America, if we want to live in a democracy.”