A new equation showing that the world is ‘deep in a climate emergency’ was unveiled on 24 September by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change, who said that people still don’t want to see the truth about the state we’re in.

Lessons from long-lost civilizations. By Hannah Yi.

He started a bad fight over an unpopular wall and can't admit he's wrong. By Harry Cheadle.

Network investment is down, layoffs abound, and networks are falling apart. This isn’t the glorious future Ajit Pai promised. By Karl Bode.

India began its super-computing journey with the Param in the 1980s after the United States (US) banned the export of Cray supercomputers and in 2008, ‘EKA’, from Tata’s Computational Research Laboratories, was ranked 9th among global high-power computing (HPC) systems. This was a time when both India and China had only a handful of supercomputing systems that could make it to the TOP 500 list. Since then, however, their respective supercomputing stories have diverged significantly.

When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? By Matt Taibbi.

When tropical forests become firestorms and the Sahara turns green. By David Wallace-Wells.

Owen Bennett-Jones on the state of the BBC.

Whether its proponents are cynical or simply naive, UBI is not the patch we need. A weekly handout doesn’t promote economic equality - or empowerment. By Douglas Rushkoff.

Women in Canada, Iceland, Taiwan, Australia, and the UK talk about their universal health care systems. By Clio Chang.

Bernie Sanders fires up crowd at San Francisco rally. By Casey Tolan.

“He is uniquely proud of such aggressive, anti-speech tactics to suppress people of color. This is a war of personal attacks.” By Alex Kane.

Sanders Doesn't Cower From Call to Get Rid of Private [Health] Insurance Companies. By Jake Johnson.

FFS. By Ilana Gordon.

Modern Monetary Theory is making waves in the realms of politics and economics. In an interview this week, Stephanie Kelton explained what it's all about. By Bryan Bowman.

Hated by politicians, speculators and money-launderers, Andy Yan's data on Vancouver housing has earned him the right to say, 'I told you so.' By Terry Glavin. (Feb. 14, 2018)

After a destabilizing move by Trump, it's no longer a question of if U.S. forces will die but when. By Scott Ritter.

WikiLeaks’ publishing of the so-called 'Vault 7' trove of the CIA is what propelled the United States government to feel like it needed to take action against the organization. By William M. Arkin.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is broadening her push on the "Green New Deal," narrating an animated short film outlining the policy advocated by progressive lawmakers. By Rebecca Beitsch.