To be, or not to be, an Empire. Q: Why will there never be a coup d'état in Washington? A: Because there's no American embassy there The origin of this… Read the rest of the article: The U.S. has launched 251 military interventions since 1991—and 469 since 1798
Listen to your heart as you watch these videos of animals being released back into their natural habitat, freed from chains, precarious situations, and mean humans. Witness these extraordinary moments… Read the rest of the article: Video compilation of animals being released back into the wild
Paul Rodriquez announced the importance of October on social media, "This month marks 20 years of being a professional skater. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way.… Read the rest of the article: P-Rod celebrates 20 years as a pro skater
Rise-Up, Monopoly, and Co-opoly: What did you learn playing board games? Games are pedagogical. They teach us lessons. These lessons are intentional. Fun is not always neutral. There are board… Read the rest of the article: Social Justice Board Games
The Black Panther Party's Franklin Lynch Peoples' Free Health Center in Boston, ca. 1970 Men with guns. Armed community self-defense. Confrontations with predatory police departments. For many people, until you… Read the rest of the article: Looking back at the Black Panther Party's community-based "survival programs"
The story of Monopoly—that it was developed during the Great Depression by Charles Darrow, an unemployed man who later sold the idea to Parker Brothers and became a millionaire—is a… Read the rest of the article: How "Monopoly" took a monopoly on Lizzie Magie's Landlord Game
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022, seventy Tik Tok creators with a following of more than 51 million users, launched the pro-Union campaign, People Over Prime, to support the demands of… Read the rest of the article: People Over Prime: TikTok Creators take on Amazon
History repeats itself, so the saying goes. It seems more accurate to consider that people repeat history and make choices similar to those others have made in the past. The… Read the rest of the article: Why is the Christian Right fascinated with children's books from the 19th Century?
Riot Genealogies and Manifesto Origin Stories In 1988, Burning Bush, the punk-rock power trio from Phoenix, AZ, released "Tales from the Bush." Denise Tanguay (bass and vocal), Thomascyne Ryther (vocals… Read the rest of the article: Burning Bush and the early origins of Riot Grrrl
Two recent op-eds offer related views on the intentions of the "Framers of the Constitution." Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Berkeley Law School, is not simply concerned with originalism and… Read the rest of the article: The Originalism of White Supremacy and Judicial Review
Imagine a gaggle of little algae robots maneuvering around inside your body, carrying life-saving medication to target the chemical receptors directly at the point of need rather than an injected… Read the rest of the article: Algae nanorobots might soon deliver drugs inside our bodies
Where's the Beef? Time to Make the Donuts. Rule #1 of marketing is brand allegiance. Ronald McDonald, though quite a scary character, had nothing to do with hamburgers and everything… Read the rest of the article: The orgiastic decadence of these commercials from 1984
Humble Superheroes for the Millennium Chicano Batman invents newly-imagined, guitar-heavy tunes that are smooth and cool, lounge-like, with a deep and capacious 1970s soul vibe. Theirs is a throwback psychedelic… Read the rest of the article: Check out Chicano Batman, the band with the best name ever
Mattel offers a second signature Barbie for Día de Muertos. Javier Meabe is again behind the designs, the same creator behind the recently released Gloria Estefan Barbie. "I'm excited that… Read the rest of the article: Day of the Dead Barbie gets a second edition
From "down under" comes an idea and technology that creates sustainable electricity, down under the ocean. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, this innovative firm Wave Swell developed a proprietary "Uniwave"… Read the rest of the article: WaveSwell draws sustainable electricity from the sea's natural motion
Forced sterilization. Racial discrimination. Coercion. Deception. Abuse. Violence. Bullying. Disdain. Gaslighting. Eugenics. These are just some of the words describing the experiences of women of color, particularly Spanish-speaking women, at… Read the rest of the article: No Más Bebés: a documentary about forced sterilizations of women of color in California
The ethics of de-extinction tested As NPR reported in August 2022, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences is working to de-extinctify the Tasmanian Tiger, gone to the world since 1936. Also known… Read the rest of the article: The Tasmanian Tiger's been extinct since 1936. Should we bring it back with science?
Jerry Hsu is a professional skateboarder. It is lore that Taiwanese-American skater phenom Jerry Hsu is best-known for his part in Emerica's 2010 release Stay Gold, where he skates switch… Read the rest of the article: Jerry Hsu: skateboarder, photographer and entrepreneur
Wilkes and Dunn are not a country duo (Brooks and Dunn are on tour) but rather three Texas billionaires: Farris and Dan Wilks from Cisco and Tim Dunn from Midland.… Read the rest of the article: Meet the Texan billionaires buying up the state's political machinery
Digging in their olive orchard in the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza strip, Salman al-Nabahin and his son unearthed a Byzantine mosaic dating from the 5th to the 7th… Read the rest of the article: Byzantine-era mosaics in an olive farm in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip
