– At least 17 people have died from heat-related illnesses as a heat wave continues baking Texas while spreading into other parts of the southern United States. RELATED: Paris Climate Summit Ends with Disappointing Results […]
BY KRISTIAN LAUBJERG Image by Joshua Hoehne. If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay […]
BY REBECCA GORDON Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger brother and I spent most of […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Nikita2706 – CC BY-SA 3.0 “God really must love Philip Morris.” John Safran is a scamp, but in the finest tradition of investigative ones. With the enthusiasm of a bloodhound, he gets […]
BY CHLOE ATKINSON Image by Markus Spiske. Why are America’s streets devoid of climate protesters? The internet was set ablaze by a viral video featuring a German woman forcefully removing a climate change protester from the […]
BY PETER BACH “The king is gone, but he’s not forgotten.” Neil Young, Farm Aid, 1985. ACTION! Not so long ago, I was writing from London about making a shift from film to words again. I was […]
BY RALPH NADER Photograph Source: Backbone Campaign – CC BY 2.0 In nature, monocultures are not so resilient to predators or other ravages that exploit their inherent vulnerabilities. Farmers have known this characteristic of monocultures forever. (Agribusiness […]
BY DAN BOSCOV-ELLEN Image by Frédéric Paulussen. Debates on the ecosocialist left are raging, from advocates of degrowth to a new crop of ecomodernists. Many in this latter camp have begun to push nuclear power as […]
BY BERNIE SANDERS The US Senate is now debating an $886bn defense authorization bill. Unless there are major changes to the bill, I intend to vote against it. Here’s why. As everyone knows, our country faces […]
BY PAUL STREET Never underestimate the Democrats and the American System’s capacity to let the slithering orange monstrosity off the hook and back into power. Many of the nation’s liberal talking heads and pundits want you […]