May 2023

Kinsey Defunded, Perma Wars Mega-Funded, Humanities Up in Smoke

AI and Human Autonomy

FISA is the “Trust Me, Chumps!” Surveillance Act

Belafonte in the Sun

Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Realities: Vijay Prashad in Conversation

The Deplorable Work Conditions Behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling Tea

Kashmir in the Shadows

The SNAP Expansion Helped Me Lead a Dignified Life on Disability…Now It’s Gone

There’s No Debate About the Debt, Only Political Priorities

Germany’s Non-Nuclear Path to a Carbon Neutral Future

America’s Continuing Quest to Hide Torture

Killing Gandhi: The Legacy of an Assassination

Why No West Point of Peace?

Letters From Saudi Arabia: Jeddah to Lawrence’s Yanbu

Worker Empowerment Stalls in Venezuela as Left Unity Fractures

Allen Ginsberg: Unsafe at any Speed

Kissinger at 100 (A Prose Poem)

We Can Do Better With a Thousand Years: On Power and Progress

Weaponizing Modern Art

A Reality Check on Our Polarized Lives (From My Radiology Exam)

The Violent Urge for Supremacy in the World’s Two Largest Democracies

Queering Mental Illness into a New Revolutionary Consciousness

The Crowning Fiasco: Even The King Looked Embarrassed

The Architecture of Cities: Berlin in 30 Seconds

Moral Panics, Then and Now

DeSantis’s Weaponization of Government Should Give Us Pause

What Greek Mythology Teaches Us About Women’s Resistance and Rebellion

Capturing Carbon With Machines is a Failure, So Why Are We Subsidizing It?

Glenn Greenwald and MAGA Populism: A Socialism of Fools

Wilderness Watch Sues Forest Service for Failure to Control Motorized Towboats in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Creating a Cooperative World?

Minnesota Lawmakers Approve Nine Major Worker-Friendly Changes

How the U.S. War on Taiwanese Semiconductors Might Benefit Japan

The Great Panic: Trans-Sexuality and the Erosion of Patriarchy

Becoming Our Own Volcano: the Fires of Nature and Humanity

Amid Debt Ceiling Debate: VA Cuts Passed by House Give Corporate Dems Political Cover

Like the Handwriting on the Wall

GDP and the Idolatry of Growth

Should Jamie Dimon Get a Government Salary?

Rogue Consultants: PwC, Tax Evasion and Getting Clients

A Walmart Worker’s View on the Retirement Divide

Sorry, I Just Can’t Go For That

Runaway Inequality About to Get Worse

Court Overturns Federal Authorization to Kill 72 Grizzlies Near Yellowstone

Nuclear Fictions

Nuke Power’s “Renaissance 4.0” Has Already Melted

The Washington Post’s Newest Strategy for Challenging China

Led by China and India: On the Global South Efforts to Fix the UN

A Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans

How Stable is Israel?