Can we feed a population that will grow to nine billion by 2050? Are we running out of land and water? Can we rely on free markets…
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Distinguished human rights lawyer, barrister and academic, Professor Conor Gearty argues that a new vision of universal freedom is urgently required. In his latest book Liberty and…
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish – and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk…
Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) sits down with Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist movement and creator of Zeitgeist, The Movie. The Zeitgeist movement’s goal is to…
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all…
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s…
Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the U.S. game show Jeopardy….
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald gave a talk at the Socialism 2012 conference in Chicago where he described how central it was to activism and movements like the…
Why are modern afflictions like diabetes, obesity and hypertension largely non-existent in tribal societies? Do traditional societies have superior ideas about how to live well? Our current,…
Whether we’re entrepreneurs persuading funders, employees pitching colleagues, politicians pushing policies, parents and teachers cajoling kids, social networkers trying to grow our Twitter following; we all spend…
From the nation’s beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over…
