Climate

The Mainstream Media Is Failing to Highlight the Climate…

Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media. On November 14, the US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which found that the United States is already

Labor

Trump Is Speaking Tonight in Michigan at a Nonunion…

For days, the mainstream media has said Donald Trump is going to Michigan to speak to union autoworkers. That’s completely false: he is traveling there today to speak at a nonunion auto-parts shop, at the invitation of its boss. This evening, rather than attend the second Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump will speak at Drake

Censorship

Kansas paper raid shines light on rising anti-media rhetoric…

Incident charts a disturbing spike in intimidation and violence toward journalists following hateful bombast from politicians. When police raided the office of a Kansas newspaper last week and tore through the homes of its reporters, Donald Trump’s oft-heard refrain that the US media is “the enemy of the people” might not have been uppermost in the officers’

Data

Post-Anthropocene Humanism

What will become of human centrality as our species is knocked off its pedestal by machines more intelligent than we are and de-centered by the humbling realization that survival depends on reducing our outsized footprint on this fragile planet?  The vise of these two developments is prompting a rethinking of what humanism might mean in

Labor

Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for…

Flex seeks to defend gig companies’ business models amid push to pass laws that would defend workers’ right to unionize and strike Flex seeks to defend the business models of these companies, which use workers labeled as independent contractors, amid a renewed push in Washington to pass labor laws that would defend those workers’ right

Capitalism

Manchin and Sinema Defend the Filibuster Because the Filibuster…

The filibuster is not about democratic checks or minority rights. The filibuster is about giving corporations veto power over the economy — which is why Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema defend it. As Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) defend the filibuster and block voting rights legislation, corporate media keeps repeating the lie