Will a sadistic White House continue to use the shutdown as a form of political torture?
Trump’s Shutdown, Trump’s Wall: Sadism in the Oval Office
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The Future is in the House: The Green New Deal
The idea of a Green New Deal has become a tangible rallying cry for environmental advocates, young people and activists for social and economic justice across the country.
Good Deeds and Fierce Resistance
In these trying and confusing times, working strenuously for the world one wants doesn’t take the horror out of the world one opposes, but it does absolve it of devastating hopelessness.
FIVE TREASURE MAPS TO THE LABYRINTH OF TRUST
Christmas 2018 V.B. Price For Rini, as always, Ryan, Talia, Mercedes, Sophia, Chris and Deanna, Jody, Amy, Keir, Helena, Teresa, and Ruth, and for all of us who are enduring more than we ever thought we could. Map Number One KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW That’s the vine tossed to you in the quicksand of self-pity […]
Donald Trump is John Adams’ Aristocratic Nightmare Come to Life
Adams thought elitism, and the fiscal inequality that comes with it, was a fundamental danger to America’s fledgling democracy.
The Impact of Pollution on Public Health
It’s not going too far to say that the environment of the modern world is a chaos of human-caused pollution — from plastics, industrial solvents, radioactive contamination, pesticides, mercury and continent-sized islands of waste in the oceans to CO2 and methane in the atmosphere, fumes from household cleaners, oil and gasoline in aquifers, hormones in […]
Is Optimism a Necessary Mental State to Cultivate on the Verge of Dire Times?
It’s not Pollyannaish to say “yes” to a form of practical optimism when the world’s been given a near-fatal diagnosis of economic enfeeblement and overwhelming human tragedy and displacement caused by climate change. Pessimism is a paralytic agent. It’s worse than any dire prognosis itself. It’s like being a fly bitten by a spider, rendered […]