3. Rebuilding Left Power

A short and easy-to-consult document to help you identify misinformation and discuss strategies to address it both online and offline.

A emFinancial Times/em best book of the year and one of emThe New Yorker’/ems “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024” br / br / An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment., Offshore, Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, Brooke Harrington, 9781324064947

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Far-right, white supremacist, and ethno-nationalist movements in Europe and the United States continue to thrive, propagating racism, hatred, and violence.

A History of the Alt-Right

Given their disparate ideologies, conservatives and liberals generally reach different conclusions about such economic issues as how modern economies operate, what should be the role of government economic policies and regulations, and what levels of income and wealth inequality should be tolerated. While the foregoing economic debate between the two camps has been ongoing for…

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Here’s a tiny question. In your darker moments — do you wonder if, well, in some elemental sense, the world around us is ending? That things have changed? Doesn’t something deep down in your gut…

How do we fight it? This tide of ugliness, stupidity, and hate sweeping our world, drowning our nations, ravaging our everyday lives? This is the question I get most often. I’m reluctant to answer…

1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…

There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…

Good question. Deceptively simple — yet a deep, profound question. Let’s talk about it. Let me rephrase the question, in a way I’ll come back to. What is The Age of Extinction, sociopolitically? It’s…

So much doom in the air. And yes, I’m guilty of it, too — hands held up. Today, let’s talk about a place that’s emerged as a beacon in a world going dark. A place near and dear to my heart, special…

It’s not just an Extinction Summer — it’s also becoming a Hot Strike Summer. Around the world, discontent is growing — and strikes are rising. And these two things are related. Let’s discuss it —…

They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…

Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…

It’s been an apocalyptic summer. Our first Extinction Summer. Look around and tell me things are going well. Sicily. Greece. Canada. On fire. Oceans, boiling. Those orange skies over Manhattan were…

Call it the Great Gaslighting of the 2020s. Take a glance at some of the headlines above. “Climate change obsession is a mental disorder. “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.” “With…

Yesterday, you couldn’t open an American newspaper without being chided against pessimism. Today, “doomerism” has replaced pessimism. And despite the fact that scolding “doomers” is increasingly a…

Bigger, bigger, bigger. Better, right? We’ve lionized big, mega, huge-scale — businesses, institutions, organizations — over medium, small, and tiny. So much so, that for example, American legal and…

Here’s a tiny question. Why is it that the future of the human race, the planet, democracy, life itself is on the line right now — and there’s not a revolution anywhere in sight? Take a glimpse at…

I get in trouble, sometimes, for being critical of…ta dum…capitalism. Eye roll. It’s painted as some kind of radical stance, Not a capitalist? Then…you must be a socialist!! And that means you’re…

How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner…

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.

descriptionA look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, ...

Ahead of your annual Thanksgiving tête-à-tête with your right-wing uncle, Matthew Klippenstein reads Bjorn Lomborg’s 'False Alarm' so you don’t have to.

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

Bob Ward reviews Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, False Alarm, finding the misuse of outdated, concocted and misinterpreted numbers on the costs of climate action and concluding that the book’s central claim that the ‘optimal’ level of global warming by 2100 would be 3.75˚C was completely out-of-date before it was even published.