by Kate Harveston In these days of political turmoil and intensifying partisan divide, it's difficult to keep track of the facts. Corporate-owned media outlets on both ends of the political spectrum market their material as unbiased and factual, all while distorting reality for ...read more

Say what you want about [Michael] Moore, but he picked himself up and did something, something approximating the role journalism is supposed to play. The rest of us—let's face it—are just souped-up shoe salesmen with lit degrees. Who should shut their mouths in the presence of ...read more

As the World Economic Forum starts in Davos, a recent report from the charity Oxfam highlighted the astonishing global wealth divide that now exists between the super rich and super poor. Reports the Guardian: The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a ...read more