Even as evidence mounts that moving faster to clean energy sources would benefit businesses and the planet, the usual suspects fight back.
Read more...Gig workers, specifically deliveristas, are en route to securing important workplace protections, like minimum wages and bathroom rights.
Read more...Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Read more...Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
Read more...Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution.
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The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Read more...We are witnessing today in America the symptoms of a culture going through the early stages of transition from pluralistic democracy to violent oligarchy.
Read more...The NCAA has changed its rules so that student-athletes can profit from commercial endorsement deals that use their names, images, and likenesses.
Read more...New York follows California to become the second state to set a firm deadline for phasing out fossil fuel powered vehicles.
Read more...In the midst of the pandemic, more than half of U.S. states have passed legislation taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases.
Read more...Health communication researchers have found that simple changes to message wording can make a big difference.
Read more...Top international vaccine experts contend current evidence does not support a need for boosters for the fully vaccinated general population at this time and recommending instead directing doses to previously unvaccinated populations.
Read more...Counterinsurgency is an incoherent approach to conquest that the US has often attempted, with little in the way of success.
Read more...A new analysis shows that a “large portion” of Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman.
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