As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to be delivered to us.
The Rise of Private Cops: How Not to Tackle Homelessness: By Sonali Kolhatkar
Click on the video to activate live chat. During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from the sidewalk. Three white women looked on at the interaction that took place in the trendy Nob Hill neighborhood on August 7, 2023, right in […]
Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agriculture sector is responsible for 10 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,
U.S. Leaders Are Split on China Policy
Click on the video to activate live chat. By Richard D. Wolff On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has now become the United States’ chief economic competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, U.S. policy seeks to secure the many benefits to the […]
Is Earth Close to “The Great Dying”? By Thom Hartmann
You may remember the 2004 disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which large parts of Europe and the American East Coast suddenly freeze up?
Five Critical Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers
Narrowly avoiding, for now, what might have been the largest strike in United States history of workers employed by a single corporation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to a tentative agreement
Burn the Barbies, Pause the Pink
A few months ago, my two sons, aged 10 and 15, told me they were excited to see the new Barbie film. I was surprised.
The Impact of Plastic on Human Health
Click on the video to activate live chat. Author: Robin Scher In 2019, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks published a statement that identified 14 emerging health and environmental issues. Right near the top of that list was plastic waste. The committee emphasized the “urgent” need “for a better assessment of hazard […]
Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price
Click on the video to activate live chat. By Sonali Kolhatkar Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down […]
Learning From History, if We Dare
Click on the video to activate live chat. By Gary M. Feinman The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert once observed: “If history tells us anything, it’s that we […]
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