Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
Using the same land for the production of both agriculture and solar energy is a win-win for the climate and farmers.
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For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...Freida Berrigan: 90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock seems to be fading….when the urgency is high.
Read more...Now Is the Time for a Federal Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance
Please support a bill in Congress that would block federal agencies from using facial recognition to track and misidentify millions of people.
Read more...The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…
Read more...The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking
On the cultural and political factors that keep the war stokers in power in the US.
Read more...Why Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Climate Action
Tackling the climate crisis effectively requires a shift from market fetishism to a more fair and sustainable global economy
Read more...Defeat of a School Voucher Program Reveals Motives Behind the ‘School Choice’ Debate
A newfangled school voucher scheme, “education success accounts,” was too much even for the conservative Virginia House to swallow.
Read more...“Biden’s Awkward Democracy Summit”
The US trying even harder to tout the virtues of its ideas of democracy is not winning friends or influencing people.
Read more...Austerity for the Plebes, Bank Rescues for the Rich
The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.
Read more...Why the Repeal of Anti-Union Laws in Michigan Boosts Workers Nationwide
The union revival is gaining ground, with the latest win being the reversal of a “right to work” law in Michigan.
Read more...Fed-Inflicted Bank Wobbles Persist as Investors Fret About Deutsche
Bank fundamentals do not look likely to get better any time soon, yet the Fed seems determined to make matters worse.
Read more...How Debt Dynamics Polarize Economic and Political Power
An overview from Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity, which extends his analysis of how debt creates an entrenched elite.
Read more...Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled
Recent laws encourage recycling old plastic into new products. But verifying recycled content relies on tricky math.
Read more...Kshama Sawant: Workers Strike Back
Sawant wants to take more forceful and concerted steps to advance workers’ interest. How do her ideas stack up?
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