Surveillance capitalism's success may be based on fooling advertisers about how effective it is.

Los Angeles provided housing for 20,000 homeless people, but 30,000 more arrived on the streets.

In the long run, we need (1) fewer births, (2) more housing construction, and (3) more sharing of apartments and houses.

Why the Raids on Australian Media Present a Clear Threat to Democracy.

Record heat, combined with drought, is forcing people to flee from parts of India.

Biden said that banksters are "positive" (influences in the US), and said that Republicans would become better if the bully were out of the way.

Republicans in Congress were not quite as bad, overall, a decade or two ago. But that has changed. The bully has pressured Republicans to join him in open contempt for any aspects of our democracy that stand in their way. The new Republican Party is the plutocratist party, and only a crushing defeat can make it change.