icture a rhinoceros in the rainforest. Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through the treetops, and tigers prowling the understory, and there is only one place in the world you could be. Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem is one of Earth’s most ancient forest ecosystems, a laboratory of life’s potential where the alchemy of evolution has […]
Fast Fashion Is Antithetical to Workers’ Rights: By Sonali Kolhatkar
’Tis the season for holiday shopping, and as American consumers ready their spending dollars, few of us are likely to link our gift buying to the high cost of low prices on the other side of the planet. This is especially true for what has come to be known as “fast fashion,” the clothing equivalent […]
The GOP’s ‘Red Caesar’ New Political Order Plan Marches Forward: By Thom Hartmann
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the wings to impose a dictatorship on the United States, you would have said that I was insane.”
Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch: By Sonali Kolhatkar
Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently issued a scathing statement about the shameful state of the United States economy.
How Right-Wing Brainchild ‘Universal School Vouchers’ Are Blowing Through State Budgets: By Jeff Bryant
In 2023, Republican state governors went to unprecedented lengths to enact universal school voucher programs in legislative sessions across the country and made support for these programs into rigid party ideology.
How the National Infrastructure Program Creates Jobs for Today and Tomorrow: By David McCall
Ryan Andreas helped his union push through legislation for a national infrastructure program in 2021, realizing that historic upgrades to America’s utilities, ports, and bridges portended brighter futures for him and his co-workers at Travis Pattern and Foundry.It turned out exactly as Andreas anticipated.
The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary, by Reynard Loki
Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of southeast Alaska, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States by far and part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest. Humans barely inhabit it: About the size of West Virginia, the Tongass has around 70,000 residents spread across 32 communities. A vast coastal terrain replete with […]
How Climate Change Is Boosting Pollen Production and Worsening Our Allergies, By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten
When the season turns to spring, flowers begin to bloom, trees turngreen, and the sun shines longer. But if you’re like almost one-third ofadults in the U.S., you might be experiencing watery eyes, a ticklythroat, and a runny nose. With spring comes pollen, which makesbreathing air more difficult.But it’s getting worse: With climate change shifting […]
The Savagery of the War Against the Palestinian People
By Vijay Prashad Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children. They will have hidden in their homes, listening to […]
How California’s Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their bosses, but as a result of a hard-won labor victory. Governor Gavin Newsom on September 28 signed AB 1228 into law; its title says it all: “Fast Food Council: health, safety, employment, and minimum wage.”
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