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    The Sun Interview

    Tipping Point

    Bill McKibben On A Planet In Peril

    In a rational world, we would be devoting every resource to making a difference in the short amount of time we have left. Past a certain point, we won’t be able to.

    By David BarsamianOctober 2019
    Tipping Point
    The Sun Interview

    To Protect And To Serve?

    Alex S. Vitale On The Overpolicing Of America

    It’s a mistake to think of each episode of police misconduct as an isolated incident that might have gone another way if different officers had been involved. It’s not about individuals. The problem is a political imperative toward overpolicing.

    By Mark LevitonSeptember 2019
    To Protect And To Serve?
    The Sun Interview

    Our Fellow Americans

    Paul Chaat Smith On The Complex Truth Of Native American History

    To see the full picture of Indians — as people who have had a continuing, complex relationship with all aspects of American culture — is just too much for some people. They want to put Indians in a box.

    By Mark LevitonAugust 2019
    Our Fellow Americans
    The Sun Interview

    To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves

    Leah Penniman On Bringing People Of Color Back To The Land

    We have food apartheid, a system of segregation that relegates certain people to food abundance and others to food scarcity. If you’re a black child in America, you are twice as likely to go to bed hungry tonight as a white child.

    By Tracy FrischJuly 2019
    To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves
    The Sun Interview

    Big Lies

    Benjamin Carter Hett On What We Can Learn From Hitler’s Rise To Power

    Hitler could only make angry arguments. Trump, too, can’t make an appeal to reason. All he can do is push the anger button and throw abuse at people. In a sense, he is just lucky that the one thing he can do is something that resonates with a certain segment of the population.

    By David BarsamianJune 2019
    Big Lies
    The Sun Interview

    The Great Work

    Ralph Nader On Taking Back Power From The Corporate State

    Every major advance for justice in our country took no more than 1 percent of adults — around 2.5 million people — with public opinion behind them, mobilizing to change government policy. If you’ve got 2.5 million people, you can recover our country, recover our government, recover our hopes and dreams.

    By David BarsamianMay 2019
    The Great Work
    The Sun Interview

    Not So Black And White

    Dorothy Roberts On The Myth Of Race

    I’m not saying that race is a natural division of human beings that can lead to unjust hierarchies. I’m saying that the very concept of race was invented to create and enforce such hierarchies.

    By Mark LevitonApril 2019
    Not So Black And White
    The Sun Interview

    Filling The Void

    Bruce K. Alexander On How Our Culture Is Making Us Addicted

    If we focus on people who are using opiates . . . we can say there’s an upsetting, awful addiction problem with them, over there, and deal with it in a prohibitive manner. In this way we minimize our vast social problems.

    By Jari ChevalierMarch 2019
    The Sun Interview

    Before It’s Too Late

    Mary Christina Wood On Avoiding Climate Disaster

    Our choice is clear: ignore the crisis and be swept up in a cycle of accelerating disaster, or manage a rapid decline of fossil-fuel use to avert the worst.

    By Mary DeMockerFebruary 2019
    Before It’s Too Late
    The Sun Interview

    We Need To Talk

    Anne Hallward On Breaking Our Silence And Overcoming Shame

    We develop courage by coming out of hiding, coming out of the closet, and there are thousands of closets.

    By Amy AmorosoJanuary 2019
    We Need To Talk

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