Dean Paton

What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it?

More and more people have come to understand that behaving as if they hold all rights to Earth’s bounty amounts to an eighth deadly sin.

47 million Americans live beneath the official poverty line, under a daily judgment of failure. The question today is: Whose failure?

Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?

When it comes to stopping NSA surveillance, it may be more effective to write to Facebook and Google than to government officials.

In the rush to privatize the country’s schools, corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed the blame on teachers and students.

Teachers at two Seattle high schools violated district policy and their union contracts by refusing to administer a mandatory test. And signs abound that teachers around the nation are ready to stand up, too.