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The whole subsidy to retiree story is a diversion from the many important issues facing the country. Even the core idea, that we don’t adequately support the young because we give too much to the elderly is wrong.
US’ historical legacies of brutality in Somalia, connecting these patterns to the US corporate interests in extracting natural resources in Somalia, and the broader legacies of militarized accumulation, environmental destruction, and racist brutality
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,”
A new U.N. report sets the stage for high-stakes negotiations at COP28 this month. This is the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016. When countries signed on to the international treaty...
Massachusetts’ coldest days not nearly so cold.
The days when Marx’s ideas were assumed to be incompatible with environmentalism and in need of greening are thankfully past. But of course, the degrowth debate is far from settled.
Rethinking Israel, Jewish identity and antisemitism
With the warming and drying climate, and with a multitude of other stresses on forest ecosystems, the best course is less is more — much less. We cannot actually fix ecosystems, we can only support their natural healing process.
A coalition of churches has achieved some successes in resisting and mitigating against rent gouging and displacement after Hurricane Ian.
Why Chevron and Exxon are doubling down on fossil fuels, despite what the International Energy Agency says about our renewable future.
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