Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Democrats begin debate on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 recovery plan. Canada declares right wing, misogynist group Proud Boys a terrorist group. President Biden’s nominee to lead Environmental Protection Agency pledges ‘urgent’ action on climate change. … Continued


What if the chasm of political difference in U.S. society was all about status?  What IS status? How is it different from race, gender, class, age, wealth—all those other differences? Cecilia Ridgeway explains. Cecilia L. Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, Emerita, in the Sociology Department at Stanford University.  Her latest book … Continued