Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Katherine Bullock
The conversation over Justin Trudeau’s blackface had widened to a conversation about anti-Blackness in Canada, and stereotypes of Muslims and anti-Arab racism.
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- Written by: C. Thi Nguyen
Pick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or Trump’s immigration policies – and wander online.
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- Written by: Alexandra Minna Stern
White nationalists around the world are appropriating the language of environmentalism.
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- Written by: Mark Clague
One of the most powerful, searing renditions of the national anthem ever recorded, Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock anthem, almost never happened.
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- Written by: J.M. Opal
The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea.
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- Written by: Katie Bohn
While “freedom songs” were key in giving motivation and comfort to those fighting for equal rights in the Civil Rights Movement, music may have also helped empower black women to lead
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- Written by: Karen Douglas
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on.
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- Written by: Arash Javanbakht
People have always used fear for intimidation of the subordinates or enemies, and shepherding the tribe by the leaders.
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- Written by: Michael J. Socolow
Mad Magazine is on life support. In April 2018, it launched a reboot, jokingly calling it its “first issue.” Now the magazine announced it will stop publishing new content, aside from year-end special issues.
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- Written by: Eva Cox
This is a long-standing tactic, based on sexist assumptions that women can be classified as either Madonna or whore, frigid or slut: something Australian feminist Anne Summers wrote about so powerfully in her book Damned Whores and God’s Police.
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- Written by: Kurt Andersen
Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?
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- Written by: J. Edwin Benton
If one word can capture the sentiment of rural and small-town dwellers in recent years, it is “resentment.”
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- Written by: Rachael Bolton
Boosting workforce participation has been the gender catchcry for at least a decade.
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- Written by: Cynthia Hooper
“A mountain has given birth to a mouse. The ‘Russian affair’ falls to pieces before our eyes.”
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- Written by: Julie J. Morley
The ancient understanding of the universe was as a unified whole. Parmenides described the universe as a single, unified block of being. Then Plato split apart this unity with his ontological distinction between Heaven and Earth. Descartes’s mind-body dualism further removed humanity from nature by excluding consciousness from the natural world.
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- Written by: Jacqueline Nelson and Jessica Walton
The term “casual racism” has emerged over the last couple of years in media coverage reporting on more extreme forms of interpersonal racism, such as racist slang and racist diatribes on public transport.
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- Written by: Steve Taylor
I would like to put forward an argument that at the moment a cultural shift is occurring, and the metaphysical paradigm of materialism is fading away. I also want to emphasise how important it is - for the future of our own species and for our planet as a whole - that this shift comes to full fruition, and that the materialist paradigm is transcended by a spiritual worldview.
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- Written by: Henry Martyn Lloyd
On either side of the Atlantic, groups of public intellectuals have issued a call to arms. The besieged citadel in need of defending, they say, is the one that safeguards science, facts and evidence-based policy.
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- Written by: Abaki Beck
A new documentary shows how one state is confronting Native American child removal. We are left to ponder: Whom is this truth-telling for? Is it to educate White people on colonial violence and how it continues to harm indigenous communities in Maine, or is it for the Native participants to heal and be heard? Can it simultaneously be both?
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- Written by: Matthew Biddle
Leaders who value morality outperform their unethical peers, regardless of industry, company size, or role, according to new research. But because we all define a “moral leader” differently, leaders who try to do good may face unexpected difficulties.
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- Written by: Liz Entman
New research shows that the presence of women in a decision-making body increases the public’s perception of that body’s legitimacy, especially when that group makes decisions that have an impact on women.
