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It was in the backseat of a white pickup that I learned about the people of the bat. It was 2016. My mother had died the...

Corporations — legal fictions that we ourselves created centuries ago — have whittled away the legal bounds that once...

Gen. Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar. Belarus’s Lukashenko. Assad. Sisi. MBS. These monsters lord it over millions of...

If you look at the MeToo and BLM movements and ask Why Now? What was different this time?, it’s clear some key...

“I want to say one word to you. One word,” whispered the voice of prudence in The Graduate. “Plastics.” Cheap,...

This idea is not new — it used to be called the Tobin Tax, after the economist James Tobin, who first proposed it in the...

News and social updates ping your phone, with your decision whether to click them carefully monitored (and parameters...

With apt gravity, artist-activists Crystelle Vu and Julian Oliver have chosen the solemn timbre of a traditional Chau...

My artistic heroes are many: Alejandro Jodorowsky, William S. Burroughs, Loren Eiseley, Philip K. Dick, Arundhati Roy,...

Do we still have it? Can we invent new aesthetics, design sustainable products and rid our cities of waste . . ....

EACH MORNING I WAKE UP AND FIND MYSELF IN A LULL. AM I PATHETIC? AM I NOT INFORMED? CORPORATIONS DOMINATE MORE NOW THAN...

For conventional economists, True Cost is a gut punch. A true-cost Marketplace would slow growth, reduce the flow of...

I am four. A man who is supposed to take care of me touches me in a way that I know is wrong, even when I don't have the...

I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad...

Maybe every generation feels confronted by some crisis that will determine the fate of the planet. But unless your head...

Somewhere between Santa Clara and Citizens United, we the people lost our confidence. We lost our dignity. We rolled...

Near the end of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the hero finds himself standing in the gallows, about to be hanged. In one...

The rich pay no taxes. Despite proof of a gigantic rogue offshore finance industry, foreign tax havens continue to...