Michael Laxer
How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...
top of page
Search
Michael Laxer
Sep 86 min read
Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...
Michael Laxer
Sep 65 min read
The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?
By Richard D. Wolff The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping...
Michael Laxer
Aug 308 min read
Growing Challenges for Dems in Arab and Muslim Voting Hotspots Across the U.S
While the Gaza War has brought attention to the political influence of Arab and Muslim Americans amid the election season, their growing...
Michael Laxer
Aug 265 min read
Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 2310 min read
Ten Grim Climate Scenarios When Global Temperatures Rise Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Here’s a frightening peek into our climate-addled future. Smoke from 2023 Quebec wildfires in New York City -- Anthony Quintano, CC BY...
Michael Laxer
Aug 176 min read
Home Improvement
The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana. Image via the North Missoula...
Michael Laxer
Aug 56 min read
The Role of Ancient DNA in Modern Traits
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar...
Michael Laxer
Aug 48 min read
Trump’s Battle for U.S. Sports
Donald Trump’s targeting of established sports leagues and promotion of alternatives have partly reshaped the American sports landscape....
Michael Laxer
Aug 36 min read
Community in Motion
Bike co-ops uphold a tradition of self-empowerment through cycling. Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4....
Michael Laxer
Aug 35 min read
The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
Michael Laxer
Jun 186 min read
Facing a Surge in Wildfires, the U.S. Government Turned to Native Wisdom and Advanced Archaeology
Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories...
Michael Laxer
Jun 119 min read
The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens US Rivers
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines. Boats on the Yazoo River, Mississippi - ...
Michael Laxer
May 135 min read
Weight Loss Drugs Go Hand-in-Hand With Junk Food Industry
Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not...
Michael Laxer
May 35 min read
Student Demands for Divestment Are Not New
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and...
Michael Laxer
May 36 min read
Seeing Red: Our Ancient Relationship With Ocher and the Color of Cognition
Extensive ocher use reflects the culture and cognitive abilities of early humans, who inherited an affinity for red from primate...
Michael Laxer
Apr 205 min read
US Prison Calls Are Increasingly Free, but Prisoners Still Aren’t
New reforms have made it easier and cheaper to make calls to and from incarcerated people. But corporate profiteering will continue until...
Michael Laxer
Apr 1910 min read
Telling the ‘Untold’ Stories of Palestinian Lives, Dreams, and Hopes—in Gaza and Beyond
The media collective Untold Palestine gathers the stories mainstream media doesn’t tell about Palestinians—videos, photographs, and...
Michael Laxer
Mar 305 min read
Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives. Image via screenshot By...
Michael Laxer
Mar 235 min read
Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car
The U.S. is aggressively keeping cheap Chinese-made EVs off the market. We are all paying the price for this protectionism. BYD Seagull...
bottom of page