Subjects Archives: Inequality

A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let alone finance. Despite the proliferation of sticky notes with compelling schemes, as Amanda Manitach describes in The Stranger, the arts roundtable lacked a cohesive strategy for gathering its aspirational potpourri […]

I do not know if the numbers on the Forbes char are correct but it is quite obvious that Trump and his family are using their positions to enrich themselves.

You ever wonder why people who make AI talk about how AI might destroy humanity—but still keep making AI?

How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements.

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it–and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.

Trump’s proposed rule change doubles down on an already broken and polluting food system.

China just forced companies to admit what the rest of the world keeps pretending not to see.

Dr. Salman Khan, an infectious disease specialist, traveled to Gaza on a three-week medical mission in February 2026. He found infectious diseases running rampant, all directly due to Israel’s siege and genocide.

The Democratic Party insiders who dominate the Federation and many of its unions–the same forces who quickly condemned Kelber’s age as the primary reason to ignore and even attack him–will all compete energetically to prove their politically correct credentials and strict loyalty to identity politics.

Trump’s strategy envisages the U.S. extricating itself from the neo-liberal regime while forcing the global south to remain entrapped within it.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision gutting the federal Voting Rights Act could upend American politics and trigger a new rush to redraw congressional districts.

Both the United States and Israel were founded and exist on land taken during ongoing genocides. Settler colonialism drives these genocides, and both nations share an ideology that justifies the theft and rationalizes the killing.

This Earth Day the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition declares that the United States and its Zionist partner have disqualified themselves from the community of civilized nations.

A country’s infant mortality rate (IMR) is often considered a key barometer for a population’s overall health as well as its access to quality health care.

This weekend news broke that the Trump Administration fired members of the National Science Board—an apolitical board of eminent experts charged with advising and providing oversight of the National Science Foundation. These experts serve staggered six-year terms, but on Friday members had their service abruptly terminated in a message signed on behalf of the president. […]

A critical analysis of ongoing social media warfare on Cuba and global African response to a revolutionary experiment under criminal siege.

Across the United States, an intense fight is raging against collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration’s rogue “law enforcement” arm.

Health professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environment and health often bemoan the relative paucity of health considerations in climate policy, with health only recently (since 2023) starting to become more integrated into the formal UN climate negotiations.

Prosecutors say that the five broke into Elbit Systems’ premises early on September 8 2025, and caused an estimated €200,000 (£173K) worth of damage to the arms manufacturer by smashing up office equipment with axes.

Al Mayadeen reports that Tehran has outlined a staged negotiation approach covering ceasefire guarantees, maritime coordination in the Strait of Hormuz, and later discussions on its nuclear program.