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In 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, a group of several dozen white women, their husbands, and Frederick Douglass...

“Deleir Khan has bought a new mare and a Bengali woman.” This news murmured through the square where villagers gathered...

Covid-19 turned from an outbreak into a pandemic because of airplanes. The virus shot around the world, instantly found...

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

Which island country plays host to the most egregious financial misdeeds? Hint: it’s no beach-blanket paradise. It’s the...

Ha! Wild how time flies, and ideas grow. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren would be proud papas, were they to see the...

What is the capitalist algorithm after all but a machine that runs on money?

Ten years ago an academic paper stood the social sciences on their ear. It came out of the psychology department at the...

Human progress will continue into the far future! The GDP will keep rising! We'll figure out climate change by sheer...

Year 1920, 1959 and 2020

“All of them means all of them” — so said the people of Lebanon, demanding that their leaders be sacked. Belonging to...

How do you keep countries alive — fed, secure, self-sustaining? Call it “biopolitics.” Every country is a living body...

Nat Turner was born in Virginia in 1800, the son of slaves and the property of plantation owners.His rebellion, which...

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

The only thing that gives me satisfaction lately is going out and getting my nose dirty. Pulling off some little act of...

The easy thing to do right now is pick a side. To let darkness get me all stirred up, convince me I know who’s right,...

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

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...