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Imagine a Sunday gathering that feels like a real celebration and inspires you in a deeply authentic way. Imagine dancing (and sweating!) your prayers, rather than sitting on benches &...
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The modern era is built on a theory of the Universe as a giant mechanical clock — dead matter with gears and springs.
Joe Brewer
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We seem to have forgotten that the human spirit is not satisfied by material progress alone. It’s time for us to reconnect with nature
Fiona Reynolds
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A common trope when trying to understand voters who vote differently from you is to simply call them idiots. This is particularly true this year, when discussing Trump voters. The most...
Chris Arnade
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Harry Frankfurt on what bullshit is, why there's so much of it, and how it can be a greater enemy to the truth than lies.
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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.
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Despite our advances in technology and medicine, we seem to be fighting a never-ending battle against a number of diseases and ailments. As viruses become more complex and bacteria...
Sophia Daoudi
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To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
—Hamlet
“Psychopaths are capable of taking the perspective of somebody else, but only to take better advantage of you. They’re able to play...
John Stanley & David Loy
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Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today's capitalism. The idea that wealth creation for the few benefits the many is a core myth of the system. But...
Steve Rushton
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United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.
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This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.
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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...
Dacher Keltner
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Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to...
Paul Craig Roberts
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Lucy Purdy explores how the concept of ‘rewilding’ could be applied not just to the natural world, but to ourselves
Lucy Purdy
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This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its...
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How Do Bourgeois Democratic Elections in the US Work?
A decade and a half into the 21st century, the answer is that they work badly. Very badly. The basic function of the...
Jimmy Higgins
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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...
Sarah van Gelder
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This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an introduction to the...
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Most of us have never taken part in a poll about politics, says Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi, but we will happily believe the results and even let them affect how we decide to...
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Universities have become detached places for the pursuit of career advancement — a fantasy world in these turbulent times.
Joe Brewer
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On the surface, things appear normal. The status quo of life in America circa 2016 isn’t to everyone’s liking, but at least the system is still working after a fashion. The price of oil...
Richard Heinberg
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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
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Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is...
Benjamin Dangl
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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.
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'Business leaders who refuse to look into the realities of their own supply chains are misguided and irresponsible.'
Deirdre Fulton
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Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my academic energies...
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THE WORM IS TURNING tells the story of how corporate agribusiness is taking over the world's food production in the name of 'efficiency' and 'feeding a starving world' - while actually...
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Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos, lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings...
Kurt Cobb
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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...
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Hear arguments from both sides and then vote in our poll
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In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within...
David Bollier
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Eleanor Penny explains why Britain needs to remain in the EU despite it's structural racism and lack of democracy.
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A friend recently said to me, “Kyer, if I were in your financial situation, I’d be freaking out.”
Kyer Wiltshire
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My first impression at OuiShare Fest was a weird utopian blockchain mania: a poorly understood but massively hyped technology that will somehow fix all our social, political, and...
Richard D. Bartlett
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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
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One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now unfolding in France make our course more...
George Lakey
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The Tapajós River is one of the last free-flowing rivers in the entire Brazilian Amazon. But this river in the heart of the rainforest and the people and ecosystems that depend on...
Alia Lassal
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In the 1964 film classic, Dr. Strangelove, Slim Pickens is seen riding a nuclear bomb down to his certain death – and perhaps to the end of us all – while he calmly inventories his...
John Atcheson
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We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent about the realities of war
S. Brian Willson
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In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks. Three items...
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark
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“It finally clicked. I have bad self esteem when it comes to men.” — Journal Entry, October 27, 2015
Zee Chang
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Scientists are increasingly warning of the potential that a shutdown, or even significant slowdown, of the Atlantic conveyor belt could lead to abrupt climate change, a shift in Earth’s...
Mike Gaworecki
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“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979)“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots...
John W. Whitehead
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Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot...
John Pilger
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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...
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Comedians James Adomian (Bernie Sanders) and Anthony Atamanuik (Donald Trump) bring two of the most controversial candidates in history, head-to-head, or rather bald-to-toupee, in the...
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After Hillary Clinton recently reneged on her promise to debate Bernie Sanders in California, the real reasons for the refusal appear to be very different. The longer the scrutiny of her...
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Trump recently waffled about debating Sanders; he said he would for $10M to charity. He must not have expected the money to materialize. It did; and he bailed. But why? It would only...
Liam Miller
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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.
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I’m dealing with massive cognitive dissonance right now. Multiple, contradictory beliefs and perceptions inhabit my mind, each compelling on its own terms. How do I choose?
Charles Eisenstein
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote the words, "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Though Thoreau lived in his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond many years ago, those words hold...
We Are Wildness
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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...
Marcie Bianco
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To build a lasting movement for climate justice, activists must decouple hope from victory and confront their fatigue head-on
Forrest Watkins
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“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And...
Joanna Macy
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An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital.
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As part of our “New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals” series, Lane Kenworthy delves into a model for Social Democracy that he believes would be beneficial for a next...
Lane Kenworthy
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Neoliberalism encourages us to treat every aspect of our lives as if it were on sale in a marketplace: is it an anti-spiritual project?
Deborah Grayson and Charlotte Millar
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Progressive renewal lies in a deep recognition that we are not choosing our current lives.
Ronan Harrington
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It is a sunny April Saturday and I’m running late to an event. This itself is not remarkable – but this time it is because the street I’m looking for in Lambeth is not marked on my map...
Fanny Malinen
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We can all feel it — the mental disease of late-stage capitalism is causing widespread depression, an epidemic of suicides, chronic feelings of guilt and shame, and a general malaise of...
Joe Brewer
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The Try Guys recreate famous photos of male celebrities and are photoshopped with their ideal body types.
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Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper.
Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a...
Vegard Gjerde
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Many changes happening around us remain unclear. We need better names and stories for them.
Joe Brewer
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More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner
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On Globalization and The Costs of Exporting the American Dream
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick
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Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax...
Steven Gorelick
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On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: “Support the troops.”
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'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says unionist.
Andrea Germanos
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The second thing NPR wants you to know about Hillary Clinton and foreign policy—after “she’s experienced”—is “she’s more hawkish than President Obama.” White House correspondent Scott...
Jim Naureckas
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In every community I visited, I found people working hard to lay a different foundation for our society.
Sarah van Gelder
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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...
Priya
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Aaron Bastani, famously pro-Brexit left commentator gives his four reasons why the EU can't be relied upon for democracy, social justice and freedom.
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What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Chip Richards
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French logging company and official partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deforesting a huge area of rainforest in southeast Cameroon without the consent of local Baka who have...
Survival International
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"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
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The Democratic party has done everything in its power to alienate me—and, I suspect, my generational peers of similar political proclivities.
Let’s start with the Political Compass...
Germaine Wensleydale
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Here’s an amazing fact: It’s 2016 and humanity is collectively moving toward a future that nobody wants. We are literally going somewhere that will hurt every single one of us.
Mass...
Joe Brewer
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Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
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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
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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...
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From shells to sunflowers, dragonfly eyes to bee hives, you can find amazing connected paterns throughout nature.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
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I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
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Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to...
Carolanne Wright
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"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." - Robert A. Heinlein
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On May 13 the American news media reported that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had recruited U.S. Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota—a major...
Richard Heinberg
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Today’s industry is quickly catching onto the modest fashion trend, but the hijab is much more than a fad. While more and more businesses are seeing it as a lucrative commodity, the...
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Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda
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Rahila Gupta meets the women fighters who are helping to stop the advance of ISIS while also leading a radical democratic charge against capitalist ideology. Welcome to the Rojava...
Rahila Gupta
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We all have it. Now, let's talk about it. Watch on for an intimate conversation about women and body hair.
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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...
Rosemary Donahue
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The obscure research that predicted Donald Trump. For more, read Amanda Taub's feature "The rise of American authoritarianism".
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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...
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Primaries and caucuses are a surprisingly undemocratic part of the democratic process. John Oliver discusses our convoluted system for choosing presidential nominees.
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As an Economic Hit Man (EHM) in the 1970s I spent a great deal of time in Panama. I hate to admit it, but I helped forge the system that has now been exposed in the Panama Papers. It is...
John Perkins
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There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of...
John Fullerton
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Masculinity is having a moment — but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
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When famed New Zealander psychologist, Dr Paul Spong, was first invited by the University of British Columbia to study the sensory apparatus of killer whales at the Vancouver Aquarium...
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Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.
Shaun King
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How to be there for the people who need you most
Heather Plett
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