Washington Post: Russian Invasion Would Disrupt Global Economy
Anthony Faiola writes in the Washington Post that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would cause global disruption of food and fuel supplies. More than 100,000...
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Robert Kuttner: Look Up!
Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect reviews the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up! “Appreciate the brilliance of the season’s most profound, category-busting movie.” Don’t Look...
North Carolina: State Superintendent of Schools Derides “Critical Thinking”
Catherine Truitt, the Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina sneered at critical thinking, as she put forth her own definition of what education...
Boston Globe: Bad News on the Environment
The Boston Globe published a story about climate change that scared me. The story has the headline “Climate Change Has Destabilized the Earth’s Poles, Putting...
Good News About the Planet, for a Change
A friend directed me to a website that reports good news. We all need that during these stressful times. Here are ten good news stories...
Tom Ultican on THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
Tom Ultican has written extensively about the greed and politics behind privatization. In this post, he reviews an important new book about the dangers of...
Heather Cox Richardson Looks Back on 2021
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian at Boston College. I enjoy reading her views, which are always well-informed. She writes: Heather Cox RichardsonDec 31...
Chile: Former Student Leader Wins Presidency
The people of Chile are expunging the last traces of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. They elected Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old member of the Chilean...
President Manchin? Or the Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
He begins: Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, assesses the role of Senator Manchin in sinking President Biden’s signature legislation. Manchin surely sunk his...
Capital & Main: Scholars Who Study Unions Are Harassed
This part of Capital & Main’s examination of union busting reviews the targeting of academics who study labor by corporate critics. It was written by...