In response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression, workers have developed unique strategies and forms of organization to protect their lives and livelihoods

Even in the unlikely event that all goes well procedurally, it is no time to gloat about the vindication of the American version of constitutional democracy

“I’m here protesting about climate change. At school, we do a term where we learn about the climate and the destruction being done to it. It doesn’t really scare me, but it worries me for the future.

Left and right-wing movements in the US are falsely framed as equally energized, but BLM is the only true mass movement supported by a majority of Americans

The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms

Much can be learned about a society from how it treats its most vulnerable members

If Trump’s lengthy rap sheet of lies, threats, obstruction, and incitement doesn’t add up to fascism, then what would?

The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths

Why, in the world’s richest country, is every metric of mental health pathology rapidly worsening?

It is a delusion to think that merely injecting money will bring back the happy mix of jobs and incomes we’ve lost in the Covid-19 pandemic

Just as the COVID pandemic came to the world as a shocking surprise, the post-COVID-19 era is likely to be an occasion for major surprises reminding us once again that the human condition is one of radical uncertainty

A second Trump term would stoke more white-supremacist vigilantism and an even more far-reaching assault on democratic rights and marginalized communities

The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age

How Israeli Piracy Destroyed Gaza’s Once Thriving Fishing Industry

This November we take the first step to turn that around and to create a government that works for all of us, and not just the 1 percent

The response of athletes as teams and as individuals, striking, dropping out of tournaments, speaking out, is remarkable

In establishing a strategic approach to these big-picture problems, which we continue to face in South Africa, no one I know embraced scale-politics better, with more seriousness and historical reach, and with such a long-range, compassionate future viewpoint, than Immanuel Wallerstein

An elected civilian council could crack down on police abuses, and pave the way for longer-term transformations

California’s Prop 15 Will Tax the Rich

Aided with today’s technology, this would be a new vision and an extension of human solidarity through modern technology. Mutual Aid is what makes us human