Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined itThe supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is...READ MORE
The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracyIs America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In...READ MORE
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better worldTitans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power. There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive,...READ MORE
Why Trump’s obsession with Obama is even more twisted than you thinkRome didn’t fall in a day. It collapsed over time, hollowed out by greed, distraction, corruption and ego. If America falls, it won’t be from war, disease or even an insurrection. It will be because...READ MORE
‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?Commonly held views in the manosphere, says Sugiura, include being anti-feminist, thinking that misandry is equivalent to misogyny and believing society is systemically sexist against men. “They want to go back to this time where...READ MORE
Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justiceFor example, to know exactly how big the risk of a drought is—where and for whom—we need a whole lot of information. Three main factors come into play: the natural hazard, our exposure to the...READ MORE
