Susan Sarandon and Slavoj Žižek Lead Celebrity Call for Greater Whistleblower Protections

The public can finally see for themselves the war crimes, corruption, mass surveillance and abuses of power of the U.S. government and other governments around the world.

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A Super-Simple Way to Understand the Net Neutrality Debate

Cutting through the telecommunications law jargon, the question comes down to this: Is access to the Internet more like access to electricity, or more like cable television service?

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Podemos Party, Grown From 15-M Movement, Now Leads Spanish Polls

The surge in popularity of the populist Podemos party – which translates as "We Can" – represents the first serious threat to the country’s two-party system since the death of dictator Franco

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Obama Calls For "Strongest Possible Rules" to Protect Net Neutrality

Advocating a free and open Internet, the president came out against "fast lanes" for higher-paying web users, shocking the telecom industry.

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Amending Colorado's Constitution: Do Communities Have Right To Clean Air and Water?

By enacting the Colorado Community Rights amendment, communities in the state will be empowered to stand up to the corporations that bully them.

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80% of Catalans Say Yes to Independence From Spain In Defining Referendum

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned the vote would "not have any effect,” which didn't stop 41,000 volunteers from organizing the election in 1,300 polling centers set up for the historic vote.

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1,000 Votes Give Maui Historic Victory Banning GMO Farming

Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences raised a historic $7.9 million to defeat the GMO ban – but the public voted by a slim margin to approve it in Hawaii's most expensive ever campaign.

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It's the Inequality, Stupid: Achieving Doughnut Economics to Solve Climate Change

There is a safe and just, sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries – and we need to find our way into this doughnut, quickly, by tackling today's vast resource inequalities.

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The Comeback of the Commons: Uniting People, Resources and Economies

Commoning forms the basis for a kind of economics run by neither state nor market but rather by community relationships in which everyone has a personal stake in a shared property or project.

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Green Tuesday: Oregon and Alaska Legalize Growing and Selling Marijuana

The marijuana legalization train has left the station.

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