Culture

Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?

Mark Changizi’s study offers a scientific and anthropological explanation for a phenomenon many take for granted.

Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.

Young people need real information and analysis, survival skills and resources.

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.

His acquisition of Twitter, a powerful opinion platform, as a private company also further cements his power.

Poverty in history’s richest nation.

For peace talks to be positive both parties must want the conflict to end.

With every death, in Tehran or elsewhere, with every reactionary clampdown, whether it be arresting activists, stifling free speech, demonising people calling for change, outlawing protests and/or increasing police powers, the numbers demanding change increases, the outrage intensifies, the wave draws breath, rises and strengthens.

It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.