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Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Accountable Capitalism Act’ aims to restore what we once...
In the heyday of the middle class in the United States—arguably the 1950s through late-1960s—it was pretty much understood that if you gave your best to an employer, that employer would return the...
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Data reveals when cops give out the most speeding tickets
It’s widely, and cynically, believed that police give out more tickets at the end of each month to make their quota, doing their bit to keep their departments on-budget. But is this true? Well, yes,...
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What socialism really is—and what it isn’t
If you’ve been reading the news in the last few months or seen a few articles lately, you might have noticed that socialism is currently enjoying a surge in popularity in the United States. According...
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Google doesn’t have a political bias. It has a technology bias.
It was just one month ago when President Donald Trump called Google “one of our great companies.” But on Tuesday, Trump turned his sights on Google, claiming on Twitter that the search engine...
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Scientists to U.N.: To stop climate change, modern capitalism needs to die
The era of cheap energy is coming to an end and societies will need to reshape energy consumption and infrastructure or face consequences, warns a new scientific background paper issued to the United...
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California just ended its bail bond system, but there are some serious...
Governor Jerry Brown has pushed to eliminate bail bonds since 1979, and it appears that he got his wishes with the signing of SB 10, the California Money Bail Reform Act. It is supposed to end the cash...
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Dutch police solve cold case after reviewing DNA samples from murderer’s...
A recently solved murder case from the Netherlands illuminates some of the promises and ethical questions raised by the police practice of using genealogy databases to identify criminal suspects. In...
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Facebook allowed users to be targeted with ads for ‘gay conversion therapy’
Facebook allowed advertisements promoting gay conversion therapy to be targeted to users who had ‘liked’ pages related to LGBTQ issues, according to a recent investigation by The Telegraph. Gay...
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Chicago 50 years later: a city looks back and disagrees on what happened
1968 was a tough year for the United States and the rest of the world. Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated, Czechoslovakia tried to break free from Russian domination, the...
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What does it mean that John McCain is ‘lying in state’ in the U.S. Capitol?
Senator John Sidney McCain III, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018 at the age of 81, is lying in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol. “Though the highest office eluded him, he attained...
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Colin Kaepernick collusion case against the NFL is cleared to head to a hearing
In what some are labeling a “stunning blow,” the case that Kaepernick has brought against the NFL, known as a “grievance” under the collective bargaining agreement that the players’ union has with the...
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There’s currently a massive prison strike to end “legalized slavery”
At 7:15 PM on April 15th, the worst prison riot in 25 years took place at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Arguing over territory and money, the combatants fought each other using...
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Kidnapping movie stars to killing family: North Korea’s 5 craziest plots
To put it mildly, North Korea has had a complicated relationship with the world. Over the years, the Hermit Kingdom has dealt with the world in different degrees of belligerence, slipperiness, and...
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Colin Kaepernick is the new face of Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ campaign
When former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced via Twitter that he’s the new spokesperson for Nike and is featured in its new ad campaign, social media dove in and—no surprise to anyone—was...
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200 celebrities and scientists sign letter urging ‘firm, immediate’ action on...
A group of 200 artists, actors, musicians and scientists have signed an open letter calling for the world’s politicians to act “firmly and immediately” on climate change in order to avoid a “global...
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Should The New Yorker have disinvited Steve Bannon from its annual festival?
This year’s New Yorker Festival was scheduled to feature an onstage discussion between David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, and Stephen K. Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief...
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9 treasures of history lost in Brazil’s tragic National Museum blaze
Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, Brazil’s most important historic and scientific museum, went up in flames Sunday night. Firefighters fought the fierce blaze through the night, but because the two...
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Bernie Sanders’ BEZOS Act will make mega corporations pay fair wages
Named with an acronym for the Amazon head and wealthiest person in the world Jeff Bezos, The Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS) Act was just introduced in Congress by U.S. Senator...
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‘Lodestar’: Who is the anonymous author of the bombshell NYT op-ed?
Lodestar. Treason. Sleeper cells. These are just a few of the terms being tossed around a day after the New York Times published an opinion column written by an anonymous “senior official in the Trump...
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Emily Nemens (Editor, The Paris Review): The literary industrial complex
I have a confession to make: Literary magazines have always kind of intimidated me. Give me an 800 page, impenetrable work of literature any day. Like Captain Ahab, I’ll pursue it relentlessly unto...
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