Voices for Change

Trump ordered the cyber command at DOD, to "stand down" regarding any monitoring of Russian actions. This is how this could damage our national security.

Wiki sites are at the forefront of a shift toward decentralized information sharing.

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.

Why would any functional country, one actively welcoming diversity, science, modernity and democratic values, join incendiary, polarized, know-nothing American dysfunction?

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”

The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.

While Trump’s forces are setting fire to the basic structures of American democracy, Democrats in Congress are widely perceived to be wielding squirt guns.

Already Americans now strongly reject the J6 pardons, 83-17%, with even 70% of Republicans agreeing on violent offenders.

The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?)

96 American special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the history of American mercenaries tells us anything, then this could be deadly.

Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.

Behold imperial bellowing, another classic MAGA “bargain” that costs millions and lowers our prestige.

Manifest destiny gets a reboot under President Donald Trump.

This should be the sole, singular focus of the anti-Trump opposition for the foreseeable future.

In order to separate truth from lies, the anti-Trump opposition should make sure to include a healthy amount of oppositional press in our media diets, and to take reporting from non-oppositional press with a grain of salt.

Houston’s Pet Care Co-op empowers humans and helps animals survive.

Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.

Instead, prize what’s left of decent statecraft,/ Not greedy connivers in love with graft.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, which must have come as a relief to the few members of the public who heard about it. 

Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.