MacKenzie Scott, who divorced from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, is troubled by the tremendous and growing wealth inequality in the world. “In this effort,” she writes of her $2.7 billion giveaway, “we are governed by a humbling belief that it would be...
On this website we have written repeatedly about the inhumane attacks on a woman’s right to choose in state after state. We are thrilled to reprint the speech of Paxton Smith, the Valedictorian speaker who went off script at her Texas high school graduation. We know...
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. On this day we commemorate June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas with 1,800 Union soldiers and...
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a judge, our school teachers, the hiring committee, the banker loaning us money, the landlord – everyone. It is with us wherever we go. Race was a conscious creation. It was developed to divide poor workers...
We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the burning of oil, coal and gas as the main sources of energy, is destroying life on the planet. The Climate Crisis Climate change is causing more frequent and more intense...
