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Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?
Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?
Good question. We can only speak from our experience from doing this work for many years, which is that men and women have different challenges and experiences of the world. We are all impacted by society (what some call ‘patriarchal culture’) but we are wounded in different...
Rebel Wisdom
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness
Not one person in this world has been able to escape the clutches of being hurt in life. I never really understood the truth of that statement until I spent two years sojourning from state to state. It was in my time of tribulation and witnessing a see a sea of humanity...
Teodrose Fikre
Globalization's Deadly Footprint
Globalization's Deadly Footprint
"That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might."
Alex Jensen
Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?
Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?
The most common question asked on this side of the Atlantic is: “Why can’t they see what these weapons are doing to their country?”
Christian Christensen
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
The Second Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says “State” instead of “Country” (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote.  Founders...
Thom Hartmann
As the Trump Administration Retreats on Climate Change, US Cities Are Moving Forward
As the Trump Administration Retreats on Climate Change, US Cities Are Moving Forward
Despite almost universal scientific consensus that climate change poses a growing threat, President Donald Trump’s recent infrastructure plan makes no mention of the need to build resilience to rising global temperatures. Instead, it actually seeks to weaken environmental...
Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick and Maxwell Palmer
The Complex History of 'In God We Trust'
The Complex History of 'In God We Trust'
In his address to the National Prayer Breakfast on the morning of Feb. 8, President Donald Trump emphasized the centrality of faith in American life. After describing the country as a “nation of believers,” Trump reminded his audience that American currenc
David Mislin
Stop Seeking Revenge. Instead, Offer Forgiveness.
Stop Seeking Revenge. Instead, Offer Forgiveness.
Forgiveness – not revenge – is the answer. Here’s why.
Sofo Archon
South Africa to Cut Ties With Israel 'Over Abuse of Palestinians'
South Africa to Cut Ties With Israel 'Over Abuse of Palestinians'
South Africa, a former apartheid state, has been vocal in its support for the Palestinian cause against the over 50-year-old Israeli occupation.
teleSUR
Healing the Divine Masculine
Healing the Divine Masculine
There’s been much talk and publicity recently over the plight of women subjected to all kinds of domineering, humiliating and abusive behaviour from men. This situation needs healing for sure, for both women and men, and to do this we need to inquire deep within the problem.
Richard West
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
It’s really hard to talk about guns and gun violence, primarily due to the fact that the NRA has spent an insane amount of money brainwashing American citizens with catchy bumper-sticker type slogans that sound logical, but fall apart upon careful examination.
Michael E Sparks
Parents Need to Start Talking to Their Tweens About the Risks of Porn
Parents Need to Start Talking to Their Tweens About the Risks of Porn
Editor’s note: This article includes references to graphic sexual content that may be inappropriate for some readers.
Gail Dines
Greg Palast: How the Republicans Helped Trump Steal the Election
Greg Palast: How the Republicans Helped Trump Steal the Election
Intrepid reporter Greg Palast has pursued the Republican war on voters that the mainstream corporate media is afraid to touch. Now, Palast has just updated his DVD, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election with new footage revealing how Trump and...
Greg Palast
“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”
“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”
America, can we talk? Let’s just cut the shit for once and actually talk about what’s going on without blustering and pretending we’re actually doing a good job at adulting as a country right now. We’re not. We’re really screwing this whole society thing up, and we have to do...
Aging Millennial Engineer
Police Could Soon Be Financially Responsible for Misconduct Lawsuits
Police Could Soon Be Financially Responsible for Misconduct Lawsuits
When police officers are sued for corruption or brutality — and when, as more frequently happens, the case is settled — it is almost always the city that employs them that picks up the tab for the damages awarded. This may be changing, with the focus now on events in Baltimore.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
How Accepting Death Makes Life Richer
How Accepting Death Makes Life Richer
By accepting death, we can enjoy life more.
Sofo Archon
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?
Tim Hjersted
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
We Don't Need Social Justice Warriors, We Need Social Justice Believers
"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."
Teodrose Fikre
5 Reasons “White Pride” is Always Racist
5 Reasons “White Pride” is Always Racist
History tells us “whiteness” has always been a construct used to exclude certain groups from equal rights
Matthew Rozsa
"Morally Bankrupt" Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts
"Morally Bankrupt" Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion in Safety Net Cuts
"Millions of Americans will lose access to life-saving programs because the GOP gave $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich."
Jake Johnson
How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
How to Get New Activists to Stay Engaged for the Long Haul
After a year of working with people newly mobilized by the 2016 election, one organizing lesson feels particularly clear: People need to feel part of a community that is making change in order to stay engaged for the long haul. This realization may not be surprising, but it...
Eileen Flanagan
Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein
Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein
The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein
It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes
The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as “ghost ships” to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean...
Patrick Cockburn
The Promise of a Million Utopias
The Promise of a Million Utopias
This paper by Michael Shuman, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commission
Michael Shuman
Why I Teach a Course Called 'White Racism'
Why I Teach a Course Called 'White Racism'
The need for students to learn about racism in American society existed long before I began teaching a course called “White Racism” at Florida Gulf Coast University earlier this year.
Ted Thornhill
Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About
Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About
Depending on where you start on this journey it can take many many years to unlearn what we are conditioned to believe by our toxic culture. 
Tim Hjersted
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?
Tim Hjersted
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
There Is No Environment: The Earth Is Our Extended Body
There Is No Environment: The Earth Is Our Extended Body
We are living in a time of turmoil for the Earth. Species extinction, deforestation, climate change, rising sea levels, and many other problems face the planet we call home.
Dr. Barry Taylor
Learning on the Homefront
Learning on the Homefront
What comes to many people’s minds when they think of homeschooling? Granola-eating Hippies Christian missionaries Anarchists General weirdos
Mary MacLachlan
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
Why Reconciliation and Redemption Are Central to Countering White Supremacy
It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by offering them support and a community of other “formers.” From losing its government...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics
This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...
Ejeris Dixon
Technology and Its Discontents
Technology and Its Discontents
Questioning the pro-digital consensus
Steven Gorelick
A Working-Class Response to Trump's 2018 State of the Union Address
A Working-Class Response to Trump's 2018 State of the Union Address
The wealthy have taken everything from us, and continue to find ways to take even more. It is never enough for them. And, year after year, their political puppets in both capitalist parties ensure that their rivers and avenues of unfathomable, flowing wealth never dry up or...
Colin Jenkins
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
The Mother Wound as a Missing Link to Understanding Misogyny
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster
How the Capitalist Cycle Is Entering Unchartered Territory
How the Capitalist Cycle Is Entering Unchartered Territory
A major internal contradiction with capitalism is that it needs workers to also be consumers. While owners (and the system in general) constantly seek to drive down wages, they also seek to continue selling their products and services. The problem is that when workers have...
Colin Jenkins
Class Wars: the Working Class Strikes Back
Class Wars: the Working Class Strikes Back
Neoliberalism is a mature stage of capitalism - a reciprocal process of concentrated wealth taking control of the public agenda via government. Capitalist economists like Milton Friedman were instrumental in paving the way for neoliberalism. The idea gained prominence in...
Colin Jenkins
On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
On 'Change as the One True Constant' for Those Who Can Hear Apathy Knocking
Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase
Isla Greenwood
The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump
The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms...
Chris Hedges
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
“So many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them.”
Maria Popova
Between the (Gender) Lines: the Science of Transgender Identity
Between the (Gender) Lines: the Science of Transgender Identity
Think of your most noticeable feature. Maybe it’s your radiant smile, or your long, piano-playing fingers. Maybe it’s your stellar jump shot, or the way you recite Shakespearean sonnets at the drop of a hat. Or maybe it’s your penchant for scientific knowledge. But whatever...
Katherine J. Wu
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
Thought Police for the 21st Century: Google, Facebook Suppress Left Media Under the Guise of Combating "Fake News"
DETROIT—The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journ
Chris Hedges
Check Your White Privilege?
Check Your White Privilege?
A significant question facing progressives today is whether the use of the term "white privilege" helps or hurts building the kind of solidarity needed to promote racial justice and reverse runaway inequality.
Les Leopold
When We Fight, We Win
When We Fight, We Win
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
CELDF
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, in One Short Take
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change, in One Short Take
I must applaud Matt Bruenig's summing up of the inherent conflict between libertarianism and environmental issues
George Monbiot
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It
It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Films for Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Films For Action: an Important Message to All Our Supporters
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce that Films For Action has launched a
Films For Action
Livin' the Screen Life
Livin' the Screen Life
Important official legal disclaimer: This is a short work of fiction. Any resemblances to real people, people you may know, people you think you may know, etc., is entirely deliberate.
John Savage
Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born
Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born
Starting with the most relevant at the top, these are the best documentaries that capture the spirit and motivation of the #OWS movement.
Tim Hjersted
A Taxonomy of Trump Tweets
A Taxonomy of Trump Tweets
Trump uses social media as a weapon to control the news cycle. It works like a charm. His tweets are tactical rather than substantive. They mostly fall into one of these four categories. The tweets either get his framing established first, knowing that whoever frames first...
George Lakoff
The Surprising Nobility of Shit: a Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Remarks About African Immigrants
The Surprising Nobility of Shit: a Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Remarks About African Immigrants
[Warning: There are some big words here. Not the best words like yours, but big words nonetheless] Bayo Akomolafe   Dear President Trump, I am Nigerian, from Nigeria, a shithole non-Norwegian type country in West Africa – widely considered the largest black nation on...
Adebayo Akomolafe
Why People Are Obsessed With Sex
Why People Are Obsessed With Sex
Sexual intercourse is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. Through the communion of the sexual act, two persons can merge and disappear into one another and experience ecstatic moments of love — moments everyone is deep down thirsty for. In those moments, the...
Sofo Archon
Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica
Averting the Apocalypse: Lessons From Costa Rica
Chasing economic growth gains us nothing but global warming. We should follow the lead of tiny Costa Rica, where life expectancy is soaring
Jason Hickel
These Candidates for US Congress Want to Win in 2018 on a Platform of Decisive Climate Action
These Candidates for US Congress Want to Win in 2018 on a Platform of Decisive Climate Action
More than 100 U.S. House and Senate candidates pledge to move off fossil fuels.
Wenonah Hauter
Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics
Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics
This is an argument against identity politics, but it is not an argument against feminism, or queer liberation, or anti-racism work. It is instead an argument that the oppressions usually combated through identity politics — a strategy based on the affirmation of Identity —...
Imminent Rebellion
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being
The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being
Alice Andrews
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...
Frances Moore Lappé
Opposition to GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral
Opposition to GMOs Is Neither Unscientific Nor Immoral
The pro-and anti-GMO positions will remain polarized until larger questions about the future of food production are addressed.
Charles Eisenstein
The Trap of Romantic Love
The Trap of Romantic Love
How the myth of romantic love is poisoning our relationships.
Sofo Archon
The Truth About “Trailer Trash”
The Truth About “Trailer Trash”
“Trailer trash” remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. This slur rests on fundamental cultural assumptions about people who live in trailer parks: that they are simple-minded, lawless, reckless with fertility, and indifferent to...
Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish