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The natural tendency toward discrimination and inequality
Yanis Varoufakis
A few years ago, I contacted my local police department asking them to send an officer over to put down a doe that had been hit by a car on the street in front of my house. She had suffered a left front and right rear leg break but had somehow flopped herself well into the...
Dave Lindorff
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Starre Vartan
There may well come a time when walking away from the EU is the right thing to do, but that time is not now.
Like so many others, I’ve been at a loss for the past two days, trying to make sense of the heinous act of anti-queer mass murder in Orlando. The following are some of my scattered thoughts on the topic, some of which I originally posted in a couple of rants on social media...
Tariq Khan
Expert tips to manage your frustration and get past toxic thinking.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Intimate relationships bring up intense feelings. Conflict with a partner can feel destabilizing, and make it difficult to be articulate and openly expressive. Many people try to avoid conflict through a variety of maneuvers—pretending to always agree, being aggressively...
Laura D. Miller
4 min
When we're down or melancholy, the last thing we need is someone who will jolly us along.
14 min
The Children's Fire is part of the Earth teachings of the elders of ancient America. Over time the elders came to understand that all human-created institutions needed to reflect the balance and wisdom observed in nature. The Children's Fire was a reminder of the first...
16 min
Britain could soon vote to leave the European Union. John Oliver enlists a barbershop quartet to propose a smarter option.
I HAVE LIVED IN CITIES WITH PRIDE celebrations for many years, and I had never attended. It always seemed like a party that was meant for a group of people to which I, a straight man, did not belong. But a couple of years ago, I moved to Asbury Park, a small town on the...
Matt Hershberger
On twitter I said “An MP gets stabbed and shot by someone shouting “Britain First” on the day UKIP copies Nazi propaganda. This is terrifying.” Someone accused me of trying to make political gain. This was my response.
Chris Brosnahan
1. The first Pride was a police riot.
We hold Pride each summer to commemorate the Stonewall Riots of 1969. At the time, most states had laws banning LGBT people from assembling in groups. Despite being illegal, the mob opened LGBT bars to profit off of the open...
Meg Ten Eyck
"Unfortunately, I think our use of the term “privilege” is no longer a productive way for us to gain a thorough understanding of systemic injustice, nor is it helping us to develop collective strategies to dismantle those systems. Basically, I never want to hear the word...
R.L. Stephens
3 min
American exceptionalism isn't always a good thing. When it comes to mass shootings, we're definitely exceptional - with the highest number of mass shootings of any country from 1966 to 2012. The NRA likes to say that a madman will always find a way commit a crime, but over...
During his June 16th national livestream address Sanders called on his supporters to run for local, state, and national offices, to continue the "process of transforming America".
Liam Miller
3 min
Gaspar Yanga is known as the first black liberator in the Americas by leading one of the most successful slave rebellions in 1570, Vera Cruz Mexico.
3 min
Despite countries such as Britain and the United States being five times richer than they were a century ago, we are working longer hours than ever before. And, argues author Rutger Bregman, overtime and overwork are deadly. Yet it doesn’t need to be like this – we can cut...
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The quality of one's childhood has an overwhelming effect on the course of adult life. It's good to be fully aware of this - and plan accordingly.
11 min
Drive an hour northwest from Durban's golden beaches, the land begins to rise into rolling, lush, green ridges. You've arrived at the Valley of a Thousand Hills in the Zulu heartland. Here in Isithumba, Indigo Skate Camp is home to the village’s very first generation of...
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Owen Jones argues that the terrorist who carried out America's worst ever mass shooting in Orlando will fail - just as a neo-Nazi terrorist did 17 years ago in London, when he detonated a nail bomb outside the Admiral Duncan pub in the heart of the capital's LGBT community
Our national attachment to dominance models of manhood is a major reason why we have so much violence.
Amanda Marcotte
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Samra Habib
1 min
While accepting the Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, one of many awards won by Hamilton tonight, Lin-Manuel Miranda upended expectations. Miranda has tended to rap his acceptance speeches at previous awards shows (including this year's Grammys), so many expected he...
Lately, new ways to describe human interactions, social behaviours, and many facets of psychology have emerged on the social network scene. One of those descriptions is “high emotional intelligence.”
Raven Fon
I don’t think I can write about his right now. I can’t be positive… And I don’t want to be negative. What I want to do is remind people that love is stronger than hate, but it’s hard to do that with tears in your eyes. I want to expose all of the hypocrisy of people who talk...
Chris Boeskool
Just existing as a queer person is still a radical —and very dangerous — act.
Noah Michelson
4 min
Michael Moore talks to Jon Snow about Europe, Brexit, war and socialism. Interview with the documentary maker, known for films which take a critical look at life and politics in the United States.
8 min
He's just seven years old and has made an epic journey with his elder brother from his former home in Afghanistan, through Pakistan, Iran and Turkey before stowing away in a lorry at Calais. Ahmad was found in the back of that lorry in Leicester after sending out a desperate...
4 min
Rejection is always painful; it need not be a tragedy.
2 min
Forbes just released its list of the top 100 most powerful women of 2016. We took a look and picked out the top five women who aren't entrepreneurs or corporate executives.
5 min
To have sound levels of self-esteem is one of the gateways to happiness. But achieving this has very little to do with the progress of our careers.
2 min
Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein join the cast of Kinky Boots on Broadway for a bathroom break. You change the world when you change your mind.
9 min
Ali didn't just shake boxing. He shook the world.
To stop the economy’s advance towards greed and destruction, we need new metaphors and images that inspire a radically different alternative.
Julie A. Nelson
3 min
John Oliver, the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, announced on Sunday that he had bought back and forgiven $15m of medical debt. Oliver announced the giveaway during a 20-minute segment on the 'grimey business' of debt collection.
One in every four Americans experiences mental illness, and lack of police understanding can lead to tragedy. Here’s what could happen if we were all trained to deal with depression and anxiety.
Jasleena Grewal
The campaigns to improve our lot under capitalism are endless. Once one form of oppression is dealt with, there’s always another left to tackle, but while engaging in that new fight, the former is bound to return because no progress is ever permanent under capitalism. Rights...
Paris Marx
1 min
They found this refugee baby floating out at sea, reminding many of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old whose body was found washed up on the beach.
For the past twenty years, I have been carrying out experiments to find out how power is distributed in groups. I have infiltrated college dorms and children’s summer camps to document who rises in power. I have brought entire sororities and fraternities into the lab...
Dacher Keltner
For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a thriving natural world.
Sarah van Gelder
In her teens, strangers flashed her on the subway, teachers asked for hugs and boys joked about her breasts. Should she laugh off a lifetime of objectification – or get angry?
Jessica Valenti
6 min
All over France people are rising up. A clip from the film Network is followed by footage of the protests, strikes and riots sweeping across France. Read more here.
5 min
The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should just recognize that it’s more a skill we can actively practice, and less an emotion that we have no control over.
To defeat the current upsurge in right-wing populism, progressives will need to disrupt, defuse, and – critically – compete for portions of its constituency.
Tarso Luís Ramos
2 min
This is my body is a spoken word piece by Agnes Torok, a commentary on people judging, grabbing and commenting on her body. She talks about the all the incredible things she can do with her body and how she shouldn't be seen as a sex object. Support Agnes is her work here.
8 min
The Daily Show look beyond the campaign trail rhetoric to find out what Donald Trump had to say about poor people and women before he was trying to become President.
These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself.
Marcie Bianco
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I’m eleven years old. I’m in the deep end of a swimming pool, small wet hands fastened on to the pool ladder. My instructor bends over.
“Let go,” she says.
“I will,” I tell her.
“Let go now.”
Priya
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
Feeling trapped on the corporate ladder? You’re not alone… our work culture has become uncaring, toxic and rather dangerous to our well-being.
Sigmund Fraud
10 min
Artist Grayson Perry explores contemporary masculinity, visiting ultra-male worlds to explore the changing lives and expectations of men in Britain today, and reflecting on his own prejudices and identity.
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
I used to get made fun of for my big front teeth. Once, when I got home from school, I found my mom’s nail file and tried to file them down. The edge of the nail file caught on my lip after I sawed away for a few minutes and punctured a hole in my cheek. I sat there, crying...
Rosemary Donahue
2 min
For the first time in his life, Daniel Blake, a fifty-nine-year-old British carpenter, is obliged to apply for welfare after suffering heart problems. Although his doctor has put him on sick leave and told him he mustn't work, he is obliged to go job-hunting or else he'll be...
Masculinity is having a moment — but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett
When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.
Kostadin Kushlev
We have been told a great lie about capitalism — that everyone who works hard in life will be successful, make a lot of money, and have a good life.
Joe Brewer
4 min
There's so much pressure on us to be always rational, calm and sensible: it's time also to say a word about the essential normality of a little madness.
5 min
When talking about refugees, we use dehumanised language, which reduces human tragedy to numbers and statistics. But this suffering concerns real people, who - just like us - have families, loved ones, friends; their own stories, dreams, goals... Only when you sit down...
Is it weird to call Captain America an anarchist? Yes, yes it is. Of course, there’s a ton of different versions of the character throughout the canon, from the hyperpatriotic and jingoistic to the I-hereby-renounce-my-US-citi...
Sadie the Goat
4 min
Kate Tempest performs her poem 'Progress' on Austrailian TV show Q&A.
The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now in acts of sustained civic mobilization and civil disobedience or be crushed.
Chris Hedges
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do.
It’s really tough to work through all the difficult feelings we have about loss. Will I see my grandmother again? What am I...
Joe Brewer
17 min
Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
Last weekend, Nuit Debout’s international working group organized two days of assemblies and action planning on the Place de la République in Paris. Some hundred people came from all over Europe and beyond to get to know this new movement in one of the heartlands of the...
Manuela Zechner
2 min
After hearing a 19th-century African-American song, Dr. Maya Angelou has never forgotten one important lyric: God put a rainbow in the clouds. Watch as Dr. Angelou shares how she honors those who employed kindness to help her, and find out how, she says, we can all "be a...
5 min
“The biggest casualty of humanity is the lack of communication, it’s the thing that breaks most relationships. It just feels so much better to talk and get it out.”
2 min
Truly Inspiring speech by Jim Carrey.
Depression and anxiety are rising rapidly among young people: what’s going on?
William Davies
2 min
Here's what happened when a group of women performed 'The Vagina Monologues' in an all-male prison.
2 min
Nuit Debout ("Rise up at night") is a French social movement that emerged from opposition to the 2016 neoliberal labour reforms known as the "Loi Travail," and began on the 31st March 2016.
2 min
Every bold advancement of progress in the United States is met by a racist backlash, says Steven Thrasher. So, he argues, it would make complete sense if Donald Trump became the next president. Until 2043, when America is mostly non-white, true political revolution will not come.
6 min
Lisa Mckenzie, Jason Williamson and others discuss class inequality and prejudice in austerity Britain. Taken from the feature documentary Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain.
5 min
The film Richard is a portrait of wandering piano tuner Richard Roberts while he explores the adventures of living without a fixed address. He classes himself as working homeless – a growing group who sleep rough by night, but then get up in the morning to go to work. Richard...
The media is wrong to characterise the issues surrounding the thousands of people attempting to travel into Europe as a ‘migrant crisis’, according to a briefing released today by campaign group Global Justice Now. Instead, attention should be drawn to the multiple crises...
Global Justice Now
10 min
With a house that was starting to wear down and energy bills that were going up, Dawn McInnes recognized she and her two sons were living on the edge of fuel poverty.
"Boundaries" draws attention to the oppression of male entitlement that women feel on a daily basis in everyday life.
Amanda Froelich
14 min
We are the disgruntled royalty, ungrateful, because we're ignorant of our grand status.
3 min
Men of the world, women would like to thank you for your advice.
41 min
Our mission is to enlighten and educate the general population about the grassroots issues of poverty and homelessness in Chicago, the US and abroad, and tell the story from the inside out.
42 min
Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11 to preempt forms of mass protest at major events in the US and worldwide. The film tracks the development of the Miami model...
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When Johnny Perez spent three years in solitary confinement, his only human contact was a correctional officer who slid cold food through a metal slot in his door. He argues that this treatment takes away prisoners’ humanity, damages their mental health and makes it harder...
The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all the global crises in the world.
Global Warming? Can’t fix that and create healthy...
Joe Brewer
Capitalism is having a laugh at our expense. Surely that is the only reasonable explanation for the current shamelessness of Britain’s corporate elite. Having survived the financial crisis without the public, armed with pitchforks, hammering on their doors, perhaps they now...
Owen Jones
2 min
"Let's face it, America doesn't have a race problem, it has a race system. It's not broken, it's designed to work against you."
22 min
Off the Cut provides unique insight into a community of boaters living on the Kennet and Avon canal. The film follows a family on their pedal powered boat as they embark on a journey in which their way of life, and that of the whole community, comes under threat.
About six months ago, I wrote a post titled 6 Toxic Habits that Most People Think Are Normal. It became very successful. A lot of people commented and a lot of people shared and big grown-up websites who get paid to post smart grown-up things asked me if they could copy/paste...
Mark Manson
Feminist porn is sex on film showing women and men as sexual equals - that sex is something you do together, not just something that a man does to a woman
Harriet Williamson
I’ve been talking with a lot of my friends recently — in private where they felt comfortable letting their guard down — about the dirty little secret no one is supposed to talk about.
The shame people feel when they can’t find a job…
…or pay their bills.
…or go to the...
Joe Brewer
Britain is still a society deeply divided by class. The same schools, established church and universities dominate public life, but under the façade of immobility, changes are afoot.
Danny Dorling
Sometimes when you are living within a system of oppression it is difficult to even see that the system exists, let alone imagine alternative ways of living and organising. Thankfully the system of capitalism, and its coke-fuelled cousin neoliberalism, that dominates the...
Emma Lindsay responds to an all too common argument about women’s responsibilities with respect to alcohol and rape
Emma Lindsay
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
Joe Brewer
3 min
We should all be able to afford a home in an area we want to live. But for many of us in the UK, with prices spiralling way beyond incomes, this isn’t a reality.
Instead, finding somewhere to live can often feel like a game.
Why is this? And who are we actually playing...
5 min
Why do we need libraries, I hear you cry, when there is THE INTERNET? Well, the thing about the internet is that it'll only show you what's most popular, not what is BEST.