We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump | Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Tru ...

Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West

Cornel West by DW Nance. Taken during the #BernieInAL Rally with Bernie Sanders in Birmingham on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 18, 2016. (CC BY-SA 4.0)Trump’s election was enabled by the policies ...

It’s Worse Than You Think | Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges. Photo by Chris Graham. ucobserver.orgNov. 11, 2016 (TruthDig.org) -- Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this ...

The Rejection of Hillary’s Wall Street Globalization Project | Diana Johnstone

Hillary Clinton official Secretary of State portraitNov. 9, 2016 (CounterPunch.org) -- “There’s no place like home.” That’s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas. The real meaning of this election is ...

The U.S. Department of Clinton | Kimberly Strassel

The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity Aug. 25, 2016 (Wall Street Journal) -- This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton ...

Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition | Caleb A. Scharf

NASA/JPL/U. of Arizona Our species just stepped into a cosmic future, yet we still starve and fight each other Feb. 18, 2016 (Scientific American) -- The announcement of the first detection of stormy ...

Nine Lessons From Third Avenue's Liquidation | Mohamed A. El-Erian

Dec. 13, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Third Avenue attracted considerable attention last week with the announcement that it would restrict withdrawals from its high-yield Focused Credit Fund. And rightly so: ...

ExxonMobil Warns of Catastrophic 7°F to 12°F Global Warming Without Government Action | Joe Romm

Planet Hell. By suicidecrew. DeviantArt. Dec. 7, 2015 (ClimateProgress) -- It’s a Through-The-Looking-Glass world. The Washington Post reports Sunday that ExxonMobil has a far saner view of global wa ...

The Blockchain – Can it Change the World? | Jurjen Söhne

Nov. 4, 2015 (BCNews) -- What if there’s a technological advancement so powerful that it transforms the very basic pillars of our society? A technology that fundamentally influences the way our econo ...

The Big Bang Is Going Down | Rick Rosner

Black hole. Credit: BoingBoing.net The Big Bang is about to collapse catastrophically, and that's a good thing March 30, 2015 (BoingBoing.net) -- First postulated in 1931, the Big Bang has been the s ...

A Cynical Ukraine Deal That Just Might Work | Bloomberg Editors

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Feb. 12, 2015 (Bloomberg Business) -- This morning’s cease-fire agreement for Ukraine is horribly flawed, yet far better than the alternative: Without it, the cou ...