Republicans now regard all rules, and all democratic norms, as obstacles to converting the state into a mechanism for the dominion of the rich. But this is not new. Many of them thought the same in the 1970s, when the vote to impeach Nixon barely succeeded.

A new Swedish law would define millions of men and women as "rapists".

Democrats have won enough seats in the Virginia legislature to block new plutocratist laws, if they are united in doing so.

But they don't have the majority that would be needed to pass laws to correct existing plutocratic injustices.

Spikes attached to a tree branch, meant to keep pigeons from perching there and dropping shit on a car, are a minor issue that illustrates a dangerous general attitude towards nature.

If we recognize only the costs of nature, and only the benefits of cars, we will continue destroying the ecosphere we depend on.

The author made an unfortunate choice to use the term "anthropocene" to describe what humanity is doing to the Earth's geology.

Austerity has brought millions to the edge of bankruptcy; now the bankruptcies are happening in the UK.

In the US, the millions of fraudulent foreclosures happened almost a decade ago.