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- How Land Use Is a Tool for Solving Climate Change
- Hyperprosociality: A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
- Obscene Wealth Is a Social Problem
- A Lesson of Coronavirus: Hunting Wildlife Can Be Deadly
- Don’t Fall for the Fake Minimum Wage Debate
- The Pitfalls of ‘School Choice’ for Families Getting Government Funding to Switch From Public to Private School
- Water Conflicts Across Africa Threaten Security, Health, and the Environment
- Agrivoltaics: The Farm-to-Solar Trend That Can Help Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition
- Alternatives to Policing
- An Ancient Recipe for Social Success
- Animal-Free Agriculture Is Key to Restoring Biodiversity
- Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
- Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
- Are Plant-Eaters Smarter and More Empathetic Than Meat-Eaters?
- Are Western Oligarchies a Long Detour of Civilization?
- How One Podcast Provides a Platform for Those Putting the Planet and People over Profit
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- Can Humanity Make a Shift to a Less Pollutive Energy System?
- Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Attainable?
- Carbon Capture Is a Potential Weapon Against Climate Change
- Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
- Why Chickens Deserve Our Respect
- Chickens Lack the Most Basic Legal Protection: The Right to Humane Slaughter
- How Cities Around the World Are Adapting to Better Food Systems
- Climate Change Is Boosting Plant Pollens and Human Seasonal Allergies
- Climate Crises Can Lead to Improved Social Cooperation and Economy
- Coins and Temples in the Ancient World
- Ways to Commit to the Changes We Want to See in the World
- ‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool for People to Protect the Planet
- Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
- Community Schools Were Succeeding in Oakland, But the District Shut Them Down Anyway
- Connecting With Nature Is a Path to Finding Joy in Life
- Corporations Are Turning Public Schools Into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
- Cruelty-Free Fashion: Growing Leather Without Animals
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- Is Eating Locally and in Season Actually Better for the Environment?
- Eight Themes in Mesopotamia’s Evolving Labor-Shaped Economies
- How Europe Is Depleting U.S. Forests in the Name of Fighting Climate Change
- 21st Century Capitalism Explainer
- Community Care Systems in Boston Inspired by bell hooks
- Exposing the Climate Hypocrisy of International Insurance Companies
- Extinction Illness
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- What Factory Farm Conditions Do to Animals—Including Humans
- How We Can Protect the Air Despite the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA Decision
- Financial Fraud, Malfeasance, Ineptitude Plague Federal Government Charter School Program
- Free Market Ideology Compared to the Principles of Near Eastern Rulership
- Human Overpopulation Is a Key Driver Behind Some of Humanity’s Biggest Challenges
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- Have Nonprofits Misled Supporters by Hiding Unsustainable Growth Policies?
- How to Localize Our Food Systems
- Why COVID-19 Proved Children Need Physical Schools, Not Virtual Education
- How Artists Stand on the Front Lines of Political Resistance in America
- How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline
- How Bioenergy Causes Air Pollution
- How California’s Farmers and Ranchers Could Lead the Way to Climate Resilience
- How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
- How Capitalism’s Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
- How Collectives Empower People to Understand the Financial Side of Life
- How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better
- The Activist Success Story Behind the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
- How Elite Infighting Made the Magna Carta
- How Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water
- How Greek Coinage Democratized the Character of Money
- Indigenous Land Management Practices Are a Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
- How Long Has Humanity Been at War With Itself?
- How Making Space for Grief Can Promote Community Healing
- How Media Companies Can Meet Their Climate Commitments—and How Readers Can Help
- Our Coffee Addiction Is Destroying the Environment
- How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
- How Practices of Care Can Support Activists to Endure
- How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
- How Teachers and Organizers Challenged the First U.S. Education Savings Account Voucher Program
- How the Acequia Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest
- How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law
- How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act 2022 Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
- How the Crusades Shaped Finance in the West
- How the Food Industry Uses Big Tobacco’s Playbook
- How Three New Museums Are Teaching the World About a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Origins
- How to Decode Humane Food Labels at the Supermarket
- How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
- How to Solve the Big Problems That Small Family Farms Are Facing
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
- How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
- Zoos Are Danger Zones for Deadly Disease Transmission Between Humans and Animals
- Is ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ Possible?
- Guide to Animal Rights Protections Around the World
- Humanity’s Main Environmental Problem Is Consumption—Climate Change Is a Byproduct
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- Mainstream Ideology Defends Creditor Claims Over the Indebted Economy
- Terms That Are Frequently Used to Describe Capitalism Simply Don’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny
- Medicine Residue Is Everywhere in Our Rivers and Lakes—and Fish Are Behaving Strangely
- Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the First Person to Understand Climate Change—More Than Two Centuries Ago
- Methane: The Forgotten Climate Change Driver That’s Poisoning Frontline Communities
- Millions of People Freecycle Instead of Buying New
- Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
- Modern (Mis)interpretations of Clean Slates
- Practices that Actually Affect Change
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- On Primate Research, the U.S. Is ‘Out of Step’ With the Rest of the World
- How to Fix Our Food System
- Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities
- Our Times Call for Managing Complexities, Not Solving Problems
- Our World Is in a Multifront Crisis—It’s Time to Cultivate a Local Peace Economy
- Outdated Narratives Have Humanity in a Downward Spiral—It’s Time to Tell ‘Stories for Life’
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- Palm Oil in Common Household Products Is Destroying the World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’
- Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
- Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
- Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
- Philadelphia Homeless Residents’ Unprecedented Grassroots Housing Victory
- The Impact of Plastic on Human Health
- Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
- PPE May Save Human Lives, but It’s Deadly for Wildlife
- Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
- Private Enterprise Originated in Public Institutions
- Property and Debt in Ancient Rome
- Public Libraries Remain Essential Despite Defunding and Privatization
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- Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
- Should Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide
- Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives?
- Socialist or Capitalist—What Is China’s Model, Exactly?
- Some Myths Regarding the Genesis of Enterprise
- Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
- Sustainability Is Not as New an Idea as You Might Think—It’s More Than 300 Years Old
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- Ten Theses on Marxism and Decolonization
- Test news
- The Ancient Patterns of Migration
- The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
- The Case for Protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’
- The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan
- The Community Schools Model
- Why Recycling Plastic Is Not Easy
- The Cradle of Humanity
- The Dairy Industry Is Determined to Pour Itself Down Our Throats
- The Legacy of Betsy DeVos on Public Education
- The Danger of Releasing Genetically Modified Trees Into the Wild
- The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
- The Double Edge Theater’s Project to ‘Rematriate Land’
- The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis
- The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
- The Growing Movement to Bring Back Community Grief and Ritual
- How Indian Farmers Defend the Rights of Farmers Everywhere
- The Inspiring Movement to Build for Climate Resiliency
- The Internet Is a Major Environmental Problem
- The Lessons of Ancient Entrepreneurship
- The Meat Industry Has Created a False Dichotomy That Pits People Against Animals
- The Mesopotamian Origin of Debt
- The Monetary Role of Silver in Sumer
- The Moneyless Economy in the USA
- The Myth That Meat Is Essential for Human Health Could Harm Us All
- The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
- The New Grand Tour
- The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
- The Origins and Nature of Bronze-Age Interest Rates
- The Palm Oil Industry Is Pushing Critically Endangered Elephants to Extinction
- The Power of Poetry to Move Us to Love in Times of Human Cruelty
- The Privatization of Law, Religion and Culture
- The Promises Posed by Community Schools
- The Relevance of Ancient History to Modern Economic Crises
- The Renewable Energy Transition Is Failing
- The Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
- The Terrible True Cost of Milk, Cheese, Butter, and Ice Cream
- The Truth About Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
- The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
- The Western U.S. May Be on the Verge of an Ecosystem Collapse
- The World’s Coffee Shops Have Emerged as Plant Milk’s Front Line
- There Are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation Than by Hiking Interest Rates