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"How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants," the pope's speech read.

This is the first episode in a new series I’m creating on the 100 Great Anarchist Thinkers (for the full series and much more, check out the Patreon at patre...

In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...

In this episode, I’m joined by Seamus Geoghan to talk about what it means to build real community as the system around us falls apart. We get into the role o...

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

Donald Trump's raucous return to the White House is emblematic of how an ascendant far-right movement is coordinating to defeat climate policies and push a fossil fuel agenda across North America, the UK, and Europe.

Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.

Here are 7 quick highlights from the Office of the Correctional Investigator, Ten Years since Spirit Matters: Indigenous Issues in Federal Corrections (released November 1, 2023). It is based on “over 200 interviews with...

How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.

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

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

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…

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…

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.