Year: 2026

The richest 1% own nearly a third of the country’s wealth. Between early 2025 and early 2026, their wealth grew by more than the bottom half of the country owns altogether. Corporate profits hit a […]

Sept. 11, 2026 The Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada, has embarked on a mission to do something unprecedented. Its leaders announced they will assert tribal sovereignty to defy a regional ban on providing […]

Havana, Sept. 10, 2026 Although the title of this commentary seems straight out of a tabloid, the reality is that the head of the U.S. State Department, the mythomaniac Marco Rubio, has developed a diabolical […]

Sept. 10, 2026   In 2003, before the United States unleashed the war in Iraq, a webcam maintained a fixed shot of Baghdad for hours. The page’s tagline was more important than the technology: “They […]

(World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of […]

Donald Trump is remaking the U.S. military command. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotions of seven U.S. Army officers selected for major general. Two are Black. Two are women. The New York […]

In the mid-1960s, Harvard researchers experimented with wearable radio tracking devices for people caught in the criminal “justice” system. These were very early prototypes of what would become the ankle monitor. In the early 1970s, […]