CAPITAL & MAIN-This year, natural disasters across the country — including epochal drought conditions and devastating wildfires in California —
California Oil Industry Continues to Thwart Climate-Related Bills
IMPORTANT READS
A Chill Wind: Texas Unleashes Bounty Hunters on Women
WOMEN'S RIGHTS - Back in the 19th century, Texas was awash in vigilante groups. In those dark years, various self-appointed “law enforcers” modeled after the Texas Rangers embarked on a decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing of Indigenous peoples in the western territory.
Letting the future out of its cage
PEACE VOICE - We pretend to have enemies, but mostly what we “have” are people whose lives simply don’t matter.
By Letting Saudi Arabia Off the Hook Over 9/11, the U.S. Encouraged Violent Jihadism
TERRORISM ROOTS-Two decades after 9/11, the role of Saudi Arabia in the attack remains in dispute despite unrelenting efforts by the U.S. and Saudi governments to neutralize it as a live political issue.
Out of Time: California Legislators Won’t Extend Eviction Ban
HOUSING - California’s eviction protections will almost certainly not be extended once they expire after Sept. 30, the state Assembly Housing chairperson said today.
What Can We Learn From the 20th Century?
COMMENTARY-Humanity emerged from the 20th century leaving behind the Spanish Flu, two World Wars, the Great Depression, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Cold War, colonialism, overt racism, imperialism, the military-industrial complex. . .lots of really bad stuff that we were relieved to see in our rearview mirror.