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In a time of crisis the president is supposed to bring us together. Donald Trump did not.

“We have been vastly outspent by industry and their corporate allies. It is clear to us that we are trying to advance rights via the ballot in an election system set up to favor corporations. This time, we’re addressing the election system too.” Lynn Anderson The initiative states that the people of Youngstown recognize that “corporations use their disproportionate wealth to frame important issues and influence elections.”

Fascism USA; Kareem on Kaepernick; Euro-identity politics; Islamophobia and Islamophilia; Jamboree jive; 25,000 reasons why

After Trump's election, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power feels like an elegy for a bygone era.

As alt-right and white supremacist movements grow it is important to revisit history and see the ways in which most hate movements are intertwined.

3D printing has started to make its way into the culinary world and a handful of chefs are experimenting with printing beautiful, edible designs, but are we ready for this technology? Is 3D printing poised to revolutionize the way we eat?

In the West, treatment of North Korea is one-sided and ahistorical. No one even gets the names straight. But if American commentators and politicians are ignorant of Korea’s history, they ought at least to be aware of their own.

The U.S. has a long history of upper-class whites who have benefited from racism.

The policy giving those in jail an incentive to undergo a sterilization procedure was unequivocally a form of eugenics: an attempt to control who can bear and raise children and why.

The Leap began in 2015 with the launch of The Leap Manifesto: 15 political demands from a coalition of 60 social movement leaders across Canada. It offered an inspiring, big-picture narrative for an energy transition based in principles of justice, human rights, and worker solidarity.