Capitalism is the Conspiracy: Structure & Examples

Here’s a funny, dark, absurd juxtaposition that sums up just how much trouble our world is in. Quick, what’s the world’s happiest country? Finland. That research just came out a few days ago. Guess…

Yesterday, suddenly, a development that had many had been dreading. A Trump-appointed judge in Texas blocked women’s access to Mifepristone — a major reproductive health drug — across America…

I just arrived back, after a bumpy flight, From America to Europe. And here, almost immediately, my European friends all asked me, more than a little baffled: “But are the things you’ve been writing…

1 in 3 people on Planet Earth are living through a record-breaking heatwave right now. Thailand has just recorded the hottest temperatures it’s ever had — 45ºC (113ºF) — and a record breaking heat…

I barely know how to begin. Let me try to start here. America is becoming the society the fascists want. Where do you even begin? Let me try again. A man was choked to death on the F train in…

Scarcely a day goes by when I don’t — sigh. Nobody’s going to like this essay. I suppose I have to write it anyways, because, well, someone has to. So let me try again. Scarcely a day goes by now…

By now, America’s approaching what can only really be described as a state of free-fall. Massacres are now regular events. One side of politics is openly authoritarian, and incites them. Social bonds…

It’s been a slow burn. Over the last decade or so, America and the world have witnessed the GOP, the Republican Party…transform. Change. Into a malign force, inimical to democracy and modernity. But…

There are headlines, and then there are headlines. I was scanning the news this morning, and this jumped out and slapped me right in the face: Whew. Sound like a big deal? It should. If it doesn’t…

Finally. Good and decent people of the universe, rejoice. It’s…indictment day. Donald Trump faces a very, very long time behind bars. Jack Smith, the…scary-looking…former war crimes prosecutor now at…

Good question. Deceptively simple — yet a deep, profound question. Let’s talk about it. Let me rephrase the question, in a way I’ll come back to. What is The Age of Extinction, sociopolitically? It’s…

It’s a theme, that by now, should be hammered into everyone’s head. Not by me, but by history, reality, facts, logic, and evidence. We discussed it not so long ago. Everything the far right touches…

It’s not just an Extinction Summer — it’s also becoming a Hot Strike Summer. Around the world, discontent is growing — and strikes are rising. And these two things are related. Let’s discuss it —…

They’re calling it the first global heatwave. In China, the temperature reached 52.2ºC (126ºF), shattering records. In Arizona, it was 47ºC (116ºF). In California, 128ºF (53.33ºC). In the Persian…

Extinction summer. Four great heat domes stretch across the globe. The planet, they say, is burning, and the oceans boiling. And people are startled, shocked, and bewildered. This fast? This hard…

Right about now, American democracy’s on the brink. While Joe Biden touts his accomplishments — and that’s fair enough — on the other side, something sinister, abusive, and perilous is happening. The…

You might be, having taken it all in, struggling for words. Here’s what Fox News had to say about Ron DeSantis’s latest policy: Slavery was beneficial to slaves. Like I said, you might be struggling…

It’s been an apocalyptic summer. Our first Extinction Summer. Look around and tell me things are going well. Sicily. Greece. Canada. On fire. Oceans, boiling. Those orange skies over Manhattan were…

Call it the Great Gaslighting of the 2020s. Take a glance at some of the headlines above. “Climate change obsession is a mental disorder. “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.” “With…

Yesterday, you couldn’t open an American newspaper without being chided against pessimism. Today, “doomerism” has replaced pessimism. And despite the fact that scolding “doomers” is increasingly a…

By now, you’ve seen the tweet above (can we still call them tweets?) That’s Donald Trump, saying that he’ll “be coming for” anyone who “goes after” him. In response, Jack, the Special Counsel…

A society in decline is a strange thing. It produces a funny and odd set of anxieties — and it’s those anxieties which our fractured, degenerating public discourse is really about, not reality, which…

There’s a kind of battle taking place in the world today. One so omnipresent, it’s invisible. That battle is between authoritarianism and democracy. America, Britain, India, China, Russia, Turkey— I…

Here’s a tiny question. Why is it that the future of the human race, the planet, democracy, life itself is on the line right now — and there’s not a revolution anywhere in sight? Take a glimpse at…

I get in trouble, sometimes, for being critical of…ta dum…capitalism. Eye roll. It’s painted as some kind of radical stance, Not a capitalist? Then…you must be a socialist!! And that means you’re…

How do you feel looking around the world? Depressed, anxious, bewildered, bereft? We have the pathetic spectacle of the first criminal trial of an American President — and the current front runner…

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is the highlight of a new, scathing supercut now circulating on social media. The deeply critical montage was referenced by MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Tuesday, October 5, reports HuffPost. During the segment, Hayes pushed back against the Republican lawmaker's disapproval of ...

In a primetime address Thursday, President Biden warned Donald Trump and his radical supporters are threatening the foundations of the republic. Biden said, “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” and that MAGA Republicans present a “clear and present danger to our democracy,” referring to Trump’s campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again.” We speak with Nancy MacLean, author and Duke University historian, who says Biden’s speech was a “wake-up call” for the nation and mainstream media. “He was absolutely right, in my opinion, that the Trump wing of the party and the MAGA Republicans have jumped the rails of constitutional democracy, of the factual universe and of representative democracy.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s selective telling of the past exaggerates the legacy of Nazism in Ukraine while ignoring the state’s historic struggle for pluralism and democracy.