Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
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Can Anti-Corruption Candidate Rick Weiland Upend South Dakota's Senate Race?
Toss-up races like Kansas and South Dakota may be the ones that decide whether or not Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate.
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Fossil Fuel Lobby Spent $213 Million Last Year to Influence U.S. and E.U. Politicians
The new 40-page report published by Oxfam International also said the global fossil fuel sector now receives $1.9 trillion in subsidies each year.
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Pay to Prey: How U.S. Governors Are Helping Outsource Public Services
Large corporations are the winners and taxpayers are the losers when transparency, accountability and the public interest are sold out to for-profit firms.
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Lighting Up the Screen with the Social Justice Film Festival: Why Seattle?
The city's social justice roots are centuries old – and today Seattle is also home to more than 70 social justice organizations and more than a dozen progressive film festivals.
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Can't Blame the Youth: One Year Since a Sheriff's Deputy Killed Teen Andy Lopez
Coinciding with the National Day Against Police Brutality and Mass Incarceration, people in Santa Rosa, Calif., will hold a vigil and community potluck Wednesday to commemorate the teen's tragic death.
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Girls To the Front: Women on the Frontlines of the Struggle in Ferguson
In times of crisis, the term “protect the women and children” might still come to mind.
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How the Waltons of Walmart Are Obstructing Our Clean Energy Future
The nation's richest family is funding nearly two dozen organizations working to roll back renewable energy policies, while pushing for regulations aimed at hindering the growth of rooftop solar power.
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UN Officials Call Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs "Human Rights Violation"
Out of her $672 monthly disability check, Rochelle McCaskill spends $600 rent – leaving her unable to pay the city’s water bills, which have skyrocketed to more than twice the national average.
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New Hampshire Rebellion: Taking advantage of the right to revolt
This isn't just a right to revolt, it's a call to revolt, an outright slam against apathy and nonresistance.
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Do Democrats Want To Fix Inequality – Or Just Complain About It?
Inequality is all anybody can talk about, except Democrats on the campaign trail who desperately need to turn out the very people so disproportionately affected by it: young and minority voters.
