Monday, January 13, 2025

Nomad America?

In a nutshell, many working stiffs are perhaps a few paychecks away from becoming what I will call Economic Nomads.

The best climate solutions start with listening to communities

Engaging residents opens the opportunity for them to thrive despite the ever-increasing climate emergency.

A global anti-Olympics movement rises to challenge the games’ darker side

“The Olympics Games put tremendous pressure on the host city’s local budget, crash the democratic government process and destroy the environment."

The triumph and tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team

It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?

What is wokewashing, and why should a business avoid it?

Be authentic in all your dealings, and demonstrate sustainable, meaningful commitment to improvement.

Both-sidesing democracy to death

Six months later, Trump has solidified his grip on the right, and elite journalists have largely returned to their perfunctory both-sides reporting.

Preventing an American Pinochet

Our democracy is too precious to throw away for partisan gain.

Readers didn’t give up on local news. Corporations did.

It’s not that people have given up on local news, but that corporate-owned papers did.

The global right wing’s bizarre obsession with pedophilia

Instead of combating real-existing pedophilia, the far right has waded into the deep end to battle Satanism and homosexuality, which they tend to equate.

How the women of Standing Rock inspired the world

“A nation isn’t defeated until the hearts of the women are on the ground.”