by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Death is an escape hatch for David Koch while the rest of us are left scrambling for the emergency brake before we go over the cliff."

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If they were really interested in building a fairer world, surely the G7 would not need to put the whole region of France into lockdown, with thousands of police and 'unprecedented' levels of security."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need governments around the world to speak up against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—and put pressure on him to stop these devastating fires and protect the Amazon."

by Julia Conley, staff writer
In keeping with his insistence that people with mental illnesses, and not the wide availability of guns, are to blame for the epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings in the U.S., President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a new project aimed at detecting mental health issues, suggesting that doing so could stop a shooting before it happens.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If there is a project with serious alarm bells, it's this one."

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Mr. Trump, you are not going to have a second term," tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders in response to the president's reported plan

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"If all the Democratic presidential candidates say to the DNC, 'Let's have a debate or a forum about climate change'—what are they gonna do, kick out every single one of them?"

by Janine Jackson
It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.

by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Resistance to corporate rule at the policy level will need to be coupled with the generation of alternatives from below, to fill the gaps left by the departing old system.

by Sonali Kolhatkar
Jill Biden’s tacit admission that her husband stands for nothing much beyond a vague idea of electability could hand the election to Trump.

by Eliza Mackintosh
And if saving the rainforest isn't enough to convince carnivores to stop eating Brazilian beef—the greenhouse gas emissions the cattle create may be.

by Steven Rosenfeld
An independent audit in Maryland raises key questions.

by Ryan Cooper
David Koch was one of the most powerful people in the world over the last three or so decades, and he did his level best to stymie any effort to stop the biggest threat to human society.