What Policing Looks Like from the Inside
Law professor Rosa Brooks became a reserve police officer and witnessed firsthand the systemic problems with policing.
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How Media Copaganda Hides the Truth about the US Punishment Bureaucracy
The media’s narrow focus on certain crimes obscures the horrors of the legal punishment system and deflects our attention away from the most impactful crimes, those of the rich and powerful.
Debunking the Myths of Green Capitalism
Adrienne Buller discusses how green capitalism offers appealing yet fake solutions to the climate crisis, and why we can’t put a market value on whales.
The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How it Expands Our View of the Universe
Learning about how other creatures experience the world makes us realize just how complex and special our environment is.
The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Must Not Look Away
Journalist Marina Bolotnikova argues that factory farming is a fascist industry in which violence and domination of animals is justified without argument.
Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight.
How Bill Gates Makes the World Worse Off
Billionaires giving to charity, also called philanthrocapitalism, doesn’t actually empower the world’s neediest or reduce inequality.
Alex S. Vitale on Rethinking Policing in The Wake of Uvalde
Revisiting the critique of policing that argues that the police are not equipped to solve social problems or address school shootings. To address harm, we must build supportive institutions.