“The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation...

January 22/19 A few days ago after Buzzfeed footage of white teens taunting a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of...

I give credit to anyone out there who had the stomach to watch Donald Trump's second State of the Union address. I don't refer here to...

"Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this this odd...

In the medical drama House, the main character played by Hugh Laurie got to the truth of a given case in Sherlock Holmes-like fashion by...

I have my doubts about whether eco-capitalism or environmental capitalism is possible or even desirable. An authentically green approach...

Here’s the key section of the Assange indictment: “On or about March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password...

If any nation has strong unions, democratic politics, excellent education and healthy and combative social movements, the local economic...

In George Orwell’s 1984, the dictatorship of Oceania controlled perceptions by continuous propaganda broadcast through the “telescreen”...

An essential feature of meaningful dialogue is the obligation to listen attentively to the words of the other. One listens closely to the...

Allow me to begin by making a straightforward distinction between the more conventional publication of fake news and Donald Trump’s...

There is nothing more contemptible than a government that goes out of its way to appease a corporate hustler. Of course, none of this is...

Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller’. — George Orwell, 1984 Listening to Trump’s...

In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was...

Following Hillary Clinton’s primary victories this Tuesday in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri, some new questions...

One of the frightening aspects of ideology is how easy its governing principles can be obscured behind tautologies and reality-denying...

One of the most potent, propagandistic memes advanced by the corporate well-to-do in the United States today has been the projection of...

The idea of capitalism as an expression of economic freedom that also secures moral and political freedom of thought, or the notion that...

What would it be like to live in a world where dissent was no longer permissible? We appropriately associate the right to dissent with...

We must not only intervene, resist and oppose neoliberal governments and corporate capitalist hegemony; we must finally put an end to...