Researchers at public universities are developing new ways of shutting down our capacity for independent thought.
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You Want It Darker?
The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.
Slavemasters
The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end.
Hopeless Realism
No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.
In a World of Their Own
By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.
An Electrifying Idea
What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?
Rebelling Against Extinction
When governments abandon us, we must step up
Farmed Out
The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?
Personality Cult
The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world
Deathly Silence
We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown
Seal of Approval
How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age
Honourable Theft
How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge
Plastic Soup
The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.
My Way Or The Highway
The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors.
Obesophobia
In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter?
Invisible Hands
Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks
A Revolution Has Begun
The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at a coming transformation in US politics
Incompetence By Design
As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart
In Memoriam
As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act.
Sunset for Liberal Democracy
The denial of popular sovereignty by mainstream leaders allows demagogues like Trump to pose as democratic champions.