All Views Articles for 2019-08-20

Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China. (Photo by DuKai/Getty Images) David Korten
You Can’t Put Capitalism Over Sustainability—and Other Lessons From China
Humanity’s existential crisis can be resolved only when we the people stand united behind a vision of the world we truly want.
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Among the factors that appear to contribute to underestimation is the perceived need for consensus, or what we label univocality: the felt need to speak in a single voice. (Photo: Getty) Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
A book entitled Discerning Experts explains why—and what can be done about it.
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Our coalition is still growing, but already is made up of organizations representing tens of millions of people united around four principles that guide our efforts to smash pharmaceutical corporations’ monopoly power. (Photo: AP) Nancy Altman, Alex Lawson
Dear Politicians: Lower Drug Prices Now
Our strategy is simple: mobilize millions of Americans across this country to stand up and demand that politicians choose a side, the American people or the pharmaceutical corporations.
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By establishing immigrant “illegality” in the workplace, the law emboldened corporations to intimidate and exploit undocumented laborers. (Photo: The Progressive) Angela Stuesse
Workplace Raids Are Not the Answer
Criminalizing undocumented labor will not curb the practice of their hiring. It only makes workers more exploitable.
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Before the manic response to school shootings and the madness of zero-tolerance, those students would have been counseled and redirected, but not expelled. Pierre Tristam
Stop Criminalizing Children in the Name of School Security
We need a more realistic law that balances security and responsibility with children’s right to make mistakes and to learn from them. Punish them. But don’t crucify them.
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US President Donald Trump arrives to pose for a family photo with participants of the G7 summit during the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 27, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. (Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) Jeffrey D. Sachs
Key Trump Policies Show a Person Mentally Disordered: Megalomaniacal, Paranoid, and Psychopathic
The U.S. president is widely mischaracterized as a cynical politician maneuvering for personal power and financial gain. Yet the situation is far more dangerous.
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The British seized the Iranian tanker at the urging of the United States. (Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) Vijay Prashad
Why the World Is Watching the Fate of an Iranian Tanker in the Mediterranean
Greece, unlike the U.S., has taken the position that Iran has "the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes alone."
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The Statue of Liberty. (Photo: USA Pyron/Dreamstime.com.) Jesse Jackson
The Significance of the 1619 Project
The project tells the "unvarnished truth" of slavery. We will face the horrors of our past, as well as the triumph of our progress. It is a telling that is long overdue.
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When the court reconvenes in October, its docket will include a new Second Amendment appeal—New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York—that has the potential to rival or surpass Heller for its impact on gun rights and gun regulation.(Photo: PJMixer / Flickr) Bill Blum
The Biggest Obstacle to Gun Control May Be the Supreme Court
With the addition of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, today’s Supreme Court may be even more pro-gun than it was when Scalia penned Heller.
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