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Textile factory worker

The Clothing Industry Is Set to Consume a Quarter of the Global Carbon Supply by 2050 The Clothing Industry Is Set to Consume a Quarter of the Global Carbon Supply by 2050

What would it take to make the fashion industry truly sustainable?

Feb 13, 2018 / Michelle Chen

Trump Campaign

How Should We Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain? How Should We Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain?

The drive to pathologize Trump isn’t going away, and neither, alas, is he.

Feb 13, 2018 / David M. Perry

A participant holds a sign saying

Don’t Let Congress Gut the Americans with Disabilities Act Don’t Let Congress Gut the Americans with Disabilities Act

You can also get your friends to call Congress to oppose Trump’s infrastructure plan and support undocumented youth walking from New York City to DC.

Feb 13, 2018 / NationAction

(Bryan Cox / ICE via AP)

For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived

Documented and undocumented, young and old, immigrants are being swept up throughout the country.

Feb 13, 2018 / Moustafa Bayoumi

Hagel speaks with Afghanistan troops

Why Does the Pentagon Always Tell Us the End Is Right Around the Corner? Why Does the Pentagon Always Tell Us the End Is Right Around the Corner?

What they should say is how many times they’ve been wrong about that.

Feb 13, 2018 / Tom Engelhardt

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race The Nuclear Posture Review Signals a New Arms Race

We need to revive momentum for reducing nuclear weapons, not for “modernizing” them.

Feb 13, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Pyeongchang Slopes

The Olympics Land on South Korea, Destroying Acres of Sacred Forests The Olympics Land on South Korea, Destroying Acres of Sacred Forests

What are we to make of the 2018 Winter Olympics?

Feb 13, 2018 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Ecocide

Ecocide Ecocide

A rigged platform.

Feb 13, 2018 / OppArt / Zoe Matthiessen

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

The right-wing war on objective reality.

Feb 13, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Putin Russian Ice Hockey Team

The Farce of the ‘Olympic Athletes from Russia’ The Farce of the ‘Olympic Athletes from Russia’

The IOC wants to look tough on doping, but the designation has fanned the very nationalism that the Olympics are supposed to hedge against.

Feb 12, 2018 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

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