Friday, April 4, 2025

How one organization is helping to grow cooperative businesses in New York City

Green Worker Cooperatives nurtures co-op startups in the South Bronx.

How corporate media has put the American public in a state of Ukraine-Russia psychosis

“[p]sychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real.… It can be triggered by… extreme stress or trauma.”

Why conservative parts of the U.S. are so angry

Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.

Multiplying hatred and division: Humanity at war with itself

Humanity is at war, not just with rival groups or nations, but within relationships, with the planet and with ourselves.

How artist cooperatives found new ways to help creative people thrive despite COVID-19

How artist collectives are helping creatives stay afloat during the pandemic.

How Big Tech sees big profits in social-emotional learning at school

Digital products that monitor students’ online behavior raise concerns about how companies use that data for profit.

Three years after the first global school strike, signs of the youth climate movement’s...

Instead of succumbing to the challenges of the past few years, young climate activists are learning to adapt and build on their past actions.

‘Reckoning’ with the economic marginalization of Native Americans

Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.

What the US can learn from Canadian activists who blocked truck convoys

As the trucker convoy makes its way to Washington, Canadian blockades offer lessons on how to stop far-right occupations in their tracks.

Western media accuse China of wanting to do what US does to other countries

A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.