The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors. Minuscule plastic fibers, fragments, foam, and films are shed from plastic stuff and are perpetually floating into and free-falling down on us from the atmosphere. Rain flushes micro- and nanoplastics out of the sky back to Earth. Plastic-filled snow is […]
Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
By Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world: the evidence tells us that cooperative and pluralistic government was at least as common as and more resilient than despotic states. This more complex picture […]
It’s Not That Hard to Solve Homelessness
By Sonali Kolhatkar California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, and… nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare this to the fact that 12 percent of the nation resides in the Golden State and it becomes clear that there is a serious problem of housing that undercuts the Left Coast’s […]
A kill shot against democracy that missed : by John Young
Call it “system fail” for those who wish our system will fail. In the 1962 thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” a high-profile figure is programmed as an assassin in a bid to overthrow the U.S. government. In more recent times, someone at the dangerously power-drunk Federalist Society saw this and blurted, “Capital idea!” And so, in […]
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Africa
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet.
Supreme Court Preserves College Preferences for Wealthy Whites
In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.
Replacing the Capitalist Dream of AI-Driven Profits By Sonali Kolhatkar
Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it’s going to change the world is a popular topic of conversation these days. There is concern that it will generate ever-more deceptive imagery that can upend people’s lives or create propaganda that can fuel mass fear.
2024 Presidential Election Poses New Tests for Guardians and Guardrails of American Democracy
Despite many accomplishments by officials and defenders since 2020, Trump’s return revives election deceptions and distrust as GOP loyalty tests.
Titan and the Titanic: Two Tales of Capitalist Hubris By Sonali Kolhatkar
The doomed OceanGate submersible offers us many of the same lessons that the 1912 Titanic sinking did.
Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
By Daniel Ross For all the well-documented sources of environmental pollution—think chemical manufacturers, energy plants, mining operations, and agricultural processes—there’s another major source of contamination that continues to get short shrift by those charged with protecting the nation’s waterways and the public’s health: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products.“Across the board, we don’t have our heads […]
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