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Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty
Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty
We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
Tamara Pearson
AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans
AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans
DO YOU KNOW what really annoys me about the media’s coverage of U.S. politics, and especially the Democratic Party?
Mehdi Hasan
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
Right-Wing Psychiatry, Love-Me Liberals and the Anti-Authoritarian Left
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
Bruce E. Levine
Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children
Basic Income - Ensuring a Future for Humanity's Children
There are clever people who make algorithms for the financial services sector. Remember those crumbs that used to fall from the rich man’s table? They’re all accounted for now. Every last one, down to the tiniest minuscule crumb that you can’t even see. They get collected by...
Eamonn Kelly
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits
We have many problems – poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc. – but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the...
Herman Daly
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The graph charts the change in income that the world’s population have experienced...
Jason Hickel
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
A Psychologist Explains How People Become Anti-Authoritarians
Lyndon Johnson famously proclaimed his requirements for an appointee: “I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.” Johnson and his ass-kissers were authoritarians.
Bruce E. Levine
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Criticizing Israel isn’t Anti-Semitic, Here’s What Is
Weeks ago, when the first accusations of anti-semitism were being leveled against Representative Ilhan Omar, I was deeply agitated.
Sarah Gertler
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
Saving Japan's seed heritage from “free trade”
I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food sovereignty activists. We met at an international Economics of Happiness Conference in Prato, Italy, where Yamada delivered a...
Anja Lyngbaek
The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’
The White Saviour: Imperialism's ‘Last Bitter Struggle for Life’
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” ― Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia
Rowen Ball
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here's How
18 concrete ways to make the urgently needed climate mobilization a reality
Jeremy Brecher
The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics
The Scourge of Self-Flagellating Politics
When politics becomes about tallying sins, it ceases to accomplish meaningful change…
Angela Nagle
The Market Theocracy
The Market Theocracy
The Handmaid’s Tale is less a dystopian nightmare about Trump’s America than a comforting fiction we tell ourselves.
Angela Nagle
Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico
Tosepan: Resistance and Renewal in Mexico
Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up to unfettered corporate investment and...
Alex Jensen
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by “environmental problems.” Bigger and more shocking, the Anthropocene encapsulates the evidence that...
Julia Adeney Thomas
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
Miki Kashtan
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
Build a Border Wall? Here's What Border Communities Say They Want Instead
For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the “Mesquite Manifesto” addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.
Gary Paul Nabhan
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
How to Fight Fascism From a Position of Strength
The growth of white supremacy and fascism has been noticeable in a number of countries lately, prompting the question: What can we learn from each other? Each country might find “best practices” elsewhere that could be applied at home, in addition to learning from its own...
George Lakey
It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy
It's Climate Change That's Scary - Not Transforming the Economy
It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people.
Bill McKibben
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
The world is facing a mass extinction of species.  All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants have declined, in many cases, severely. Human civilization has had a negative...
Earth Day Network
Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart
Five Signs a Man Is Connected to His Heart
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
Bryan Reeves
What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People
What Covington Catholic Students Should Know About the Church's History With Indigenous People
Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in general are likely unfamiliar with the church’s brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.
Mary Annette Pember
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News
I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that...
David Cain
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
No Impact Man's Guide to Activism
So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck away our ideas. I did. I’d tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I’m not capable of making a difference. I’d sit on my ideas, get on with my life, and then feel...
Colin Beavan
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
5 Shareable Excerpts From Douglas Rushkoff's New Book 'Team Human'
Douglas Rushkoff's just released book "Team Human" is a passionately argued manifesto "for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age." Released this week, the manifesto's 100 points outline the many reasons and ways to"“reassert the human agenda." In true Shareable style...
Courtney Pankrat
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors
Joanna Macy talks about three tasks needed to bring in a world of spiritual progress: create new institutions, change the culture, and stop the worst of the damage. At Metta we feel that the worst of the damage has been to the human image – who are we and what can we become...
Prof. Michael Nagler
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong
J Oliver Conroy
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
The Wall Is Not Beautiful
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be “totally effective...
Sandra Lubarsky
My Message to Davos Elites: Act as If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
My Message to Davos Elites: Act as If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is.
"Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don't. That is as black or white as it gets. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival."
Greta Thunberg
Confronting the Culture of Death
Confronting the Culture of Death
The issue before us is death. Not only our individual death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our collective death.
Chris Hedges
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
Linda Sarsour, the Women's March, and Anti-Semitism
In recent days there have been some calls from some people in the Jewish community to boycott the planned Women’s March on January 19. This call has been explained on the ground that some of the March leaders have been unwilling to specifically denounce Minister Farrakhan of...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
King's Vision Is Still Defiant
He stands now, as he did then, as a living force for justice, in uncompromising opposition to poverty, racism and war
Robert C. Koehler
The Point Is to Change It
The Point Is to Change It
All suffering begins and ends in our brains.
Josh Liveright
What if a City Were Designed by Trees?
What if a City Were Designed by Trees?
Seeing trees as sacred is not an anomaly, it’s the fact that our culture has somehow lost this fellowship that’s an anomaly. If trees are a keystone of our wellness, why not learn to listen to their voice? If we did, how might the things we hear transform the landscape of our...
Patrick Lydon
Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side
Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side
Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.
Ruth Conniff
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
The Problem Isn't Robots Taking Our Jobs. It's Oligarchs Taking Our Power
Training for the jobs of the future keeps workers trapped as long as workers can't shape how technology is used and who profits from it
Adam Simpson
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Lessons in Resistance From MLK, the 'Conservative Militant'
Just days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists from Greenpeace climbed up a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word: Resist.
Christopher Beem
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here's Why.
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
Peter Cole
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
10 Things We All Lose If Bernie Chooses Not to Run in 2020
What policy issues would be off the table? What demands for transformation would be watered down?
RoseAnn DeMoro
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
Amador Fernández-Savater talks with Guiomar Rovira, author of Networked Activism and Connected Multitudes, about punk, Zapatismo, technology, communication, and activist appropriation of the internet.
Guiomar Rovira and Amador Fernández Savater
From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line
From Personal to Global Trauma: the Through-Line
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
Sarah Peyton
Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are
Why Americans Need to Act Like the Majority We Already Are
This article was first published in “Bye-Bye 45: A Guide to Bringing Him Down.” Read more about the action guide here.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
Unauthorized Washington Post Offers a Fantasy Grounded in Movement Wisdom
On Wednesday morning, as commuters in Washington D.C. made their way to work, the front page of what appeared to be the Washington Post had people stopping in their tracks. The headline read: “UNPRESIDENTED: Trump hastily departs White House, ending crisis.”
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
Education, Jobs and Capitalism
Education, Jobs and Capitalism
American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...
Gerald Coles
Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs
Color Conversations: a Rational Discussion About Race, Imposed Identities and Social Constructs
To advocate solidarity is not to deny the existence of injustices. However, I humbly submit that the only way we can ameliorate the legacy of hatred that has, and continues, to crater the lives of millions is through compassion and inclusion. It might feel good to rage at the...
Teodrose Fikre
Core Nonviolence Commitments
Core Nonviolence Commitments
I have not found a word that captures the exact line that I am looking for. Commitment may be a bit too strong, and tends to connote “should,” thus invoking the non-choiceful energy of obligation and duty. “Intention” is not strong enough, in my mind, to carry the unwavering...
Miki Kashtan
The Love We Deserve
The Love We Deserve
Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable.  The kind of love that reminds us that “open hearted” is not a metaphor, but a literal description of a way to be in our bodies. The kind of love that transforms...
Simon Mont
7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019
7 Reasons to Keep the Faith in 2019
Boost your morale with unexpected good news you won’t find in the mainstream media
EcoHustler
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
And we wouldn’t even have to tax the rich to pay for it.
Ellen Brown
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of...
Deena Metzger
From Me to We. A World-Changing Resolution for the New Year
From Me to We. A World-Changing Resolution for the New Year
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
David Korten
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet we’ve had a simple answer for millennia…
Patrick Lydon
Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
Climate Action Must Now Focus on the Global Rich and Their Corporations
The latest UN climate talks, known as COP24, have just concluded. The supposed story this time was one of a grinding victory by the EU and developing nations over recalcitrant petro-states – Russia, the US, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. These four, condemned as “climate villains&
Nicholas Beuret
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think
I am constantly amused by people who post threats on Twitter and Facebook as they warn anyone within all-caps distance that they will block or defriend anyone who dares commit the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with them. There was a time where debates advanced...
Teodrose Fikre
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership as Social Relation: Nonprofit Strategies to Build Community Wealth Through Land
Ownership is often seen as a very simple concept. “Mine, not yours,” a two-year-old might tell us. The reality, however, is far more complex, as the rights of owners are far from fixed. Indeed, the concept of what ownership means is itself subject to change. For this reason...
Steve Dubb
Old Mother Forest
Old Mother Forest
I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you and I. Tangled beings brought together by strange and...
Suprabha Seshan
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work
A network of public banks could underwrite the new New Deal in the same way President Franklin Roosevelt financed the original.
Ellen Brown
The World We're Creating: Metamodern Philanthropy and Social Transformation
The World We're Creating: Metamodern Philanthropy and Social Transformation
“…we lack an overarching narrative to connect the many smaller ones: a powerful ‘meta-narrative’ to serve as a new foundation for our shared symbol world that we are all co-authors of. This book has been written in search of such a narrative.” — Tomas Bjorkman, The World We...
Brent Cooper
Dealing With Painful Emotions
Dealing With Painful Emotions
I have felt that learning to deal with painful emotional states is one of the most important aspects of growth. It affects our love relationships and how we deal with the inevitable disappointments, losses and rejections that life brings. It also determines our ability to...
Krishnananda
Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.
Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.
Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma (thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts.
Eric Bowers
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