| Mar 5, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyShould the richest country on earth invest to keep the planet we all share inhabitable? We believe the answer is yes — and fast. Unfortunately, not all lawmakers seem to agree. Last month, our group, Youth Vs. Apocalypse, asked California Senator Dianne Feinstein to...
| | Peace / SecurityIn a matter of minutes, as easily as sending a tweet, a sitting U.S. president could decide to launch a nuclear attack, without anyone else’s approval or authorization. In a matter of minutes, millions of lives would be lost, and millions of futures halted...
| Feb 27, 2019 | RoundupThe Jussie Smollett story is truly strange. But as Gray Ndiaye shares in a personal story this week, false hate crime reports are vanishingly rare. In fact, official statistics — which under-count the real number — show a three-year rise in hate crimes of all...
| | Economy / BusinessThe richest man in the world, who heads one of the world’s largest and richest corporations, is also filthy rich in arrogance and pomposity. Jeff Bezos of Amazon demanded that a city’s officials kowtow to him by handing billions of taxpayer dollars to his retail...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAn Arkansas lawmaker wants to cut school lunch funding for schools that fail to improve their students’ reading levels. I’m sorry, what? I think I understand the logic behind such a proposal. I just strongly disagree with it. It’s cruel, but even more than that, it’s...
