The National Butterfly Center, based on a special microclimate and ecosystem that extends from the edge of the Rio Grande, is threatened with imminent destruction by bulldozers.

It would be trivial to build a wall but skip the wide zone behind it. Such a small area would be easy to patrol. But Republicans think their strength is measured by their refusal to turn their bulldozers to spare whatever turns up in their path.

A 7th grade student was suspended from school for drawing a stick figure of a hunter holding a rifle.

This sort of fussiness about things that are only suggestive of danger is often called "zero tolerance".

The non-rich depend on solidarity. Unions promote it, as plutocrats work to set people against each other.

What Democratic Socialism Is… And What It Is Not.

Democratic Socialism includes public ownership of a large fraction of the "means of production", though the word "production" is too narrow to fit modern society, but definitely not all of it.

Coal use for electricity has increased by 1/3 in the past decade. (And burning of gas has increased in recent years.)

We cannot allow these new coal power plants to remain in use for 10 more years.