At the end of Caroline Fraser’s disturbing discussion of three books on the waste crisis that is harming the poor and destroying the globe, she concludes,

There is widespread concern that AI will lead to mass unemployment in the years ahead. As I and others have pointed out, we have yet to see any evidence

Senate Republicans, the Associated Press reports, plan to give the Secret Service $1 billion for "security upgrades" to president Donald Trump's 

The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26th, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on and threats

It’s hard to avoid noticing, and internally screaming over, the Trump administration’s proposed military budget upgrade to $1.5 trillion annually – as

So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The

Truthful Fiction Guns and Bullets- -The abridged version: For more than a day I knew a war photographer: He shared the horrors’ and beauty of places

Dispatches from the Terminal Ward of the Western Echo Chamber From the Edge of the Confirmation Bias Abyss Something is cosmically wrong with the

The Kremlin can count on only one real ally in its war in Ukraine. Belarus has offered its territory for the staging of the war, and China has provided

If you're wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It's

In April, the General Services Administration announced plans to automate 1 million work hours annually after cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff since

The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that

Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my

A machine made of human parts. This is what (Lewis) Mumford called the 'megamachine': an entire society ordered from the top down, justified by

From Beijing this week, the first US state visit to China in nine years is being staged for the world to see. The Great Hall of the People is open to

On May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across three

In May, 2025, a restaurant worker in Thailand asked an Israeli tourist to remove her shoes before entering the establishment, a traditional cultural

Back when George W. Bush was doing his big drive to privatize Social Security, I got upset because he was using bogus numbers that grossly exaggerated

As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may seem, I

Late last month, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified that he was making Long COVID a top priority, noting that his

The United States government, under first Biden and now Trump, has launched a full-scale assault on one of the most courageous and honest voices at the