Republicans want to maximize the catastrophic heating of the globe. Democrats want to pretend to be doing something without taking on the fossil fuel industry. Without aggressive, angry climate activism, we face utter disaster.

If a law should apply, it should apply regardless of how people feel about following it. If the law infringes on liberty, it should be repealed.

Murdoch’s vast empire of toxic right-wing propaganda, from the British tabloids to the Wall Street Journal to Fox News, has poisoned the brains of millions and made the world dramatically worse.

Journalist Donald Cohen on how turning public goods over to private companies is a terrible idea that causes us to have to pay for things we already own.

Khaled Beydoun explains how Islamophobia in many parts of the world was worsened by the U.S. “war on terror.”

Media companies are happy to sell us anti-capitalist messages in our TV shows, as long as they don’t have to give up power or wealth to the people making those shows.

It’s obviously morally abominable to booby-trap the border with razors. But some people think desperate migrants deserve whatever cruelties we inflict on them.

What an era’s most popular sitcoms can tell us about their time and our own.