On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions.

H. Patricia Hynes
As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying
Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes
We need to redefine our militarized national security embodied in weapons and global top cop mentality as urgently as cities and states need to rethink community security embodied in militarized police
There is a meme circulating in this time of pandemic that we are all in this together, that COVID-19 is, as New…
We haven’t Even begun to Flatten the Curve on the Climate Crisis
Thanks to this tax cut—the rich get richer: 72 percent of the tax cuts were directed to the wealthiest 20 percent of households
What we—citizens, corporations, courts and government—do about the climate crisis will determine life on earth within the next few decades
Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?
The judge ruled that the potential environmental and public health impacts of the pipeline – including the risk of climate change – had made civil disobedience legally necessary