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Published in: TransformationA gay Marxist meets the Tea Party in California
Is the fabled “center-ground” of politics worth striving for if the real beneficiary is crony capitalism? This is...
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Published in: TransformationManifesting a second-order revolution in Brazil
Protest alone can't secure a long-term vision for society, so the straight lines of demonstrations have to be...
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Published in: TransformationWe could learn from the blues/of Langston Hughes
The poet Langston Hughes was both of and ahead of his time. In Twitter-friendly, succinct verses, he exposed...
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Published in: TransformationThe Tar Sands and the World Tree – can Ragnarok be avoided?
Norse mythology tells of Ragnarok, a cataclysmic disaster akin to ecocide. In order to avoid this fate we need new...
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Published in: TransformationProgress with roots
In the last thirty years, the Basque Country has transformed itself from an economic backwater under Spanish...
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Published in: TransformationSlow democracy
At a time when 95 per cent of Americans disapprove of their own Congress, what hope is there for democracy in the...
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Published in: Transformation“Stay creative, stay vigilant, stay positive:” fighting for a living wage in California
WATCH: hotel maids are among the least protected workers in America, yet a coalition of groups in Los Angeles has...
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Published in: TransformationCan you change the world from your living room?
Americans with different political views may yell at each other but they rarely talk or listen. It’s time to...
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Published in: TransformationThis Finnish architect says more sharing will create sustainable cities
WATCH: Who thinks about whether cities are socially sustainable or not? Architects like Inari Virkkala do. This is...
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Published in: TransformationMeet the young hackers finding new ways to live
Since the economic crisis, young peoples' expectations have become dreams. But our generation are coming up with...
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Published in: TransformationReally radical economics
Transformation doesn’t require an alternative “social economy,” because the economy we have is already social. We...
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Published in: TransformationCan the Pentagon be tamed?
US military spending is out of control. An unlikely alliance of liberal and conservative groups is determined to...
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Published in: TransformationLove in a time of neo-liberalism
In the harsh world of neo-liberalism, the word 'love' has become so devalued it would be better simply not to use it.
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Published in: TransformationLove at the barrel of a gun
Violence can only be overcome by love. An armed intruder meets an unexpected response at an elementary school in Georgia.
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Published in: Transformation12-year old Madison Kimrey rocks North Carolina politics
You’re never too young (or too old) to get involved in politics. Watch this video and get inspired.
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Published in: TransformationLiterature, empathy and the moral imagination
Great works of literature are often love-letters to the form itself, but moral philosophy has rarely taken...
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Published in: TransformationCan religion be a force for transformation?
Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma:...
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Published in: TransformationLove, vanity and wealth
Secure in gated communities and smoke-tinted limousines, the rich have no desire or motive to transform ‘I’ into...
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Published in: TransformationOn superheroes: who will save us now?
Comicbook superheroes live in a world where individuals can change with ease into objects, think out loud, or kill...
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Published in: TransformationThinking like a plant
How can we act in ways that contribute to the evolving fabric of life, rather than to its dissolution? By “thinking...