Has America Lost Its Grip on Reality?
Reading Time: 11 minutes Renowned author, professor, and psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton exposes the similarities between today’s ideological polarization, Chinese communist thought reform, and cults.
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Reading Time: 16 minutes Whistleblowers are essential for protecting regular people from the excesses of governments and businesses. We need them now more than ever before.
What If Everybody Is Wrong About Stopping Climate Change?
Reading Time: 15 minutes A contrarian view of how to deal with our environmental crisis.
As Earth Chokes on Plastic Waste, Industry Expands Production
Reading Time: 19 minutes A new documentary depicts a global plastics crisis that is only getting worse.
A Firsthand View of Syria, Turkey, and the Middle East
Reading Time: 9 minutes A conversation with longtime Middle East correspondent Charles Glass.
Can the Editorial Cartoon Be Saved?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Cartoonist Ted Rall talks about the state of journalism, the death of irony, and the effort to save the once-powerful political cartoon.
Liberty: Hard to Achieve, Easy to Squander
Reading Time: 16 minutes A distinguished MIT economist looks at how today’s events line up with how liberty dies.
Watchdogs Challenge Surveillance in Berkeley
Reading Time: 16 minutes In a bastion of America’s progressivism, authorities are secretly spying on the public.
It Takes a Whistleblower to Know One
Reading Time: 14 minutes CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou weighs in on the Ukraine scandal.
Is This the End of the Republican Party?
Reading Time: 16 minutes The GOP has waged a losing battle against social modernity for decades. Next year Republicans will start paying for it, renowned pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts.