By Julia Conley An under-the-radar report by U.S. President Joe Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council should not go unnoticed, said the national watchdog Food & Water Watch on Thursday, as buried in the document is…
Address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway By John Pilger In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at…
Commentary by Carl Hintz The “cultural wars” have reared their ugly heads in North Carolina. As an enthusiast of cultural anthropology, this saddens me. Culture is a shared system of meaning, not something to have…
The Dystopian Future of U.S. Public Education Is On Display in Houston By Jackie Anderson, Ruth Kravetz and Jay Malone On June 1, the state of Texas removed Elizabeth Santos, an elected school board trustee,…
By Linda McQuaig With outright climate denialism largely behind us, we keep moving on through more sophisticated stages of climate inaction. Currently, even as large swaths of North America became engulfed in wildfire smoke, we…
By Lisa Sorg The House overrode Gov. Cooper’s veto of the Farm Act today, stripping 2.5 million acres of wetlands—an area one and half times larger than the state of Delaware—of environmental protection. The vote…
Commentary by George Monbiot Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate…
By Ashley Dawson New York just became the first US state to pass a major Green New Deal policy. After four years of organizing, the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) is now in the New…
Commentary by Richard D. Wolff Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily…
Kate Aronoff The Inflation Reduction Act would not have happened without the movement for a Green New Deal, but it shouldn’t be confused for one. The climate left (broadly defined) now faces a novel problem:…