Preparing for the coming transformation
It is critical for us to step out of the limitations of two and four year election cycles and recognize that social transformation does not arise by electing the perceived least evil.
Guns and liberty
Gun ownership in the United States, largely criminalized for poor people of color, is a potent tool of oppression.
Learning from Gandhi
Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. But his legacy lives on. You can learn from it too, if you wish.
US CEOs are world’s best – for themselves
U.S. CEOs certainly do deliver the best results for themselves. They certainly do not, on the other hand, deliver the best results for average people in their nations.
Why Isn’t the Media Feeling the Bern?
Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news.
On Father’s Day: Poor Alphonse
“But other men were not my father. He never once stopped loving me his entire life.”
‘I was absolutely afraid:’ Indigenous elder on ‘mob mentality’ of MAGA hat-wearing students in...
We speak to Nathan Phillips about what happened. He is a Vietnam-era veteran and previous director of the Native Youth Alliance.
Why activists need art to create social change
The authors of a new book on artistic activism discuss the importance of fighting on the terrain of popular culture to reach a mass audience.
Life without limits: The delusions of technological fundamentalism
Playing god got us into this trouble and more of the same won't get us out.
Writing as Resistance
Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.