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“Sex Cult Nun” author on recovering from a cult: “You get to write a new story”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon talks to Faith Jones about leaving a religious cult and re-discovering who she was
Noam Chomsky discusses the path to a livable future
Stan Cox, Noam Chomsky
Linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky speaks with Stan Cox about the prospect of climate catastrophe
When a president taught in a segregated school — and it changed history
Matthew Rozsa
Lyndon Johnson did more for racial justice than any president. Was that because of his year teaching public school?
Among social scientists, a vigorous debate over loss aversion
Michael Schulson
A principle that explains decision making — from investor behavior to insurance markets — isn’t ironclad
With California’s OK, Chevron is selling oil from an illegal spill
Aaron Cantú
Two years after it began, state regulators have yet to issue any penalties for the spill
Welcome to the Martians! We now live in a world stranger than science fiction
Tom Engelhardt
In an age of surging authoritarianism, our world is increasingly like science fiction – and not in a good way
Profound climate change may be inevitable, but society can go on
Marianne Apostolides
Although the world may soon be unrecognizable, humans might be able to adapt
Beltway media’s moronic coverage of Build Back Better is cheating the nation
Bob Hennelly
Rep. Bill Pascrell says BBB could transform America more than FDR's New Deal — but the media just wants snark
Manchin and Sinema pull billionaire GOP donors as they scale back Build Back Better
Alex Henderson
"They have won growing financial support from conservative-leaning donors and business executives," the NYT reports
Arizona and West Virginia would win big from BBB: Are Manchin and Sinema paying attention?
Igor Derysh
Do the two senators who control fate of BBB value “corporations and billionaires" over their own constituents?
mRNA vaccines changed the course of the pandemic. Now, they could cure all kinds of other diseases
Matthew Rozsa
From HIV to cancer to influenza, researchers say that mRNA vaccines have tremendous medical potential
Can the real lessons of Virginia rescue the Democrats in 2022? It’s definitely worth trying
Paul Rosenberg
As usual, Democrats are at risk of pointless panic — instead of standing up for what most Americans believe
Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working
Shannon Osaka
The agreement's feeble enforcement measures are a feature, not a bug
Rats in our house, rats in our streets: For New York rodents, so much depends on real estate
Ellen Friedrichs
The pandemic helped NYC's street rat population explode. Meanwhile, inside our home, Snowball and Dill frolicked
“Globalist” is an epithet now — yet some of history’s greatest thinkers supported world government
Matthew Rozsa
Luminaries like Albert Einstein believed that humanity needed to unite under a world government to deal with crises
“Red scare tactics”: GOP senator called out for questioning whether Biden pick is a Commie
Igor Derysh
“I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade,” said Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy to Saule Omarova
House Democrats overcome last-minute right-wing campaign, pass Build Back Better bill
Jon Skolnik
Despite a flood of negative campaign ads and a late-night Kevin McCarthy stunt, Democrats pass Biden's big agenda
One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
Zoya Teirstein
Biden's infrastructure bill puts billions toward wildlife and ecosystems
Rupert Murdoch says Trump needs to get over losing 2020 election: “The past is the past”
Brad Reed
"The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future," Murdoch said.
In Afghanistan, climate change drives an uptick in child marriage
Ruchi Kumar
Reports suggest a spike in such marriages, spurred in part by the effects of drought on the agrarian country
Trump and his regime committed — or at least condoned — mass murder. America just doesn’t care
Chauncey DeVega
It's clearer than ever that Trump used mass death as a political weapon. Do Americans now think that's normal?
Inflation is accelerated by our addiction to fossil fuels — Biden’s agenda can break that dependency
Amanda Marcotte
Build Back Better critics should know investing in green energy is one of the best ways to prevent inflation
Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site
Jena Brooker
The plan would stop all future drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico
Cubans definitely want change — but not necessarily regime change
Medea Benjamin
Cuban dissidents and their U.S. backers pushed for big anti-government protests this week. Why didn't they happen?
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