Neoliberal obesity and coronavirus in Mexico
In August, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca banned the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to children under the age of 18.
Mexico's Assistant Health Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell, who has denounced soda as "bottled poison",...
Archaeologists in Mexico find first Mayan slave ship
Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a Mayan slave ship. It is the first time this kind of ship has been found. Scientists say the wreck is believed to date back to...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87
Friday at the age of 87. In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts said, “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature.”
Ginburg’s death gives President Trump a chance to name...
Navalny posts Instagram photo of him walking down stairs
Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been seen walking down stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed, five days after a Berlin hospital said he had been taken off...
Colonization Made California a Tinderbox: Why Indigenous Land Stewardship Would Help Combat Climate Fires
We examine California’s history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes in...
“I Don’t Believe Sandy Committed Suicide”: #BlackLivesMatter Co-Founders Speak Out on Sandra Bland
As a Movement for Black Lives Convening is set to take place this weekend in Cleveland, we discuss the case of Sandra Bland and many others who have died in the...
Big Oil <3 Police
Our modern world is full of unholy alliances. Evangelicals and President Donald Trump, Sprint and T-Mobile, pickles and trash beer (actually, that last one sounds awesome). But there are few relationships as toxic as...
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining magnate who had...
Google honors Black cartoonist and activist Jackie Ormes with new Doodle
Google's search website has been updated in honor of Jackie Ormes, a Black cartoonist and activist who challenged the disparaging portrayals of Black characters in media in the 1940s.
If you go to Google.com, you'll...
A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an...
Wildfires with the hidden men and women on the front lines of the state’s ever-growing fire season: prisoner firefighters. Of the 13,000 firefighters battling blazes across the state, more than 2,500...