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First, They Came For The Venezuelans
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 10:50 am | Independent Media Institute
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized citizens, or native-born citizens—are safe. More >>
How U.S. States Can Protect The Environment From Federal Rollbacks And Intervention
Friday, 21 March 2025, 8:07 am | Independent Media Institute
States have powerful legal tools to counter federal environmental rollbacks, from enacting stronger local regulations to forming interstate coalitions that protect natural resources and public health. More >>
Trump’s Address To Congress Highlights The Absence Of Opposition
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:04 pm | Independent Media Institute
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him relatively unchecked power to push drastic domestic and international changes. More >>
Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members In The Public Funding Process
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:57 am | Independent Media Institute
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. More >>
What Was It Like For Our Sapiens Ancestors To Meet And Mix With Cousin Species?
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:40 am | Independent Media Institute
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory today. More >>
What Are The Origins Of The Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
Friday, 7 March 2025, 11:18 am | Independent Media Institute
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional processes that gave rise to money as we know it. More >>
How Mesopotamia’s Urban And Industrial Revolution Started Politics As We Know It Today
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 9:46 am | Independent Media Institute
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life. More >>
A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy Of Anti-immigration
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:26 pm | Independent Media Institute
Immigration always served chiefly the needs of U.S. capitalism. More >>
Monkeys Infected With Transmissible Diseases Are Trucked Across U.S.—Where’s The Transportation Department?
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:22 pm | Independent Media Institute
Experimenting on monkeys is cruel—and keeping them is a threat to public health. More >>
The Coming Age Of Border Changes?
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 11:25 pm | Independent Media Institute
Trump’s remarks on annexing territory and recognizing Russian and Israeli territorial gains may align with his geopolitical ambitions, but the disruption to longstanding norms of fixed borders sets a risky precedent. More >>
Exploring Ancient Understandings Of Meteorites In Archaic Societies
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 11:20 pm | Independent Media Institute
“We have evidence for the idea that the sky was a dome made of iron in a few different civilizations,” explains Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, the Egyptologist who analyzed the hieroglyphic for iron (and sky), during an interview. More >>
How The Camp Lejeune Justice Act Can Help Veterans Impacted By Toxic Exposure
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 3:27 pm | Independent Media Institute
Decades of toxic contamination at Camp Lejeune have left veterans, military families, and civilians with devastating health issues. More >>
Foreign Companies Driving The Global Privatization Of Domestic Infrastructure
Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:19 pm | Independent Media Institute
Foreign entities have secured profitable positions in once-public domestic infrastructure. The pursuit of short-term cash has sacrificed long-term revenue streams to a variety of foreign investors. More >>
How We Distribute Power Will Influence Our Future
Monday, 17 February 2025, 10:13 pm | Independent Media Institute
As we head into a future shaped by climate change, we must find ways to stabilize societies and reduce conflict. Solutions may lie in the archaeological record. More >>
The Central Role Of Collaboration And Trust In Human Societies
Saturday, 8 February 2025, 9:58 pm | Independent Media Institute
The concept of heterarchy has joined a developing paradigm shift in the social sciences. More >>
Who Will Manage Global IP Protections?
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 11:50 am | Independent Media Institute
The growth of new technologies and geopolitical rivalries has complicated international IP protection. WIPO’s flexible, mediating approach may succeed where more rigid regulatory frameworks have struggled, but hurdles remain. More >>
We Have Entered The Era Of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, And Economies Are Being Devastated
Sunday, 26 January 2025, 6:52 pm | Independent Media Institute
Marine heat waves are causing record-breaking ocean temperatures that kill animals and impact ocean-based industries. More >>
United States In 2025: Social Problems Denied Via Rhetorics Of Refusal
Saturday, 18 January 2025, 6:43 pm | Independent Media Institute
The record levels of government, corporate, and household debt alongside abundant signs that such indebtedness is worsening do not help project the United States as an economic model. More >>
Guide To Preserving Sacred Land Near You
Thursday, 9 January 2025, 12:45 pm | Independent Media Institute
Preserving biodiversity is among the most urgent issues of our time, and it needs to be addressed regionally to succeed. More >>
How The World Hides Liability For Climate Deaths
Sunday, 5 January 2025, 8:30 pm | Independent Media Institute
Unfair family planning regimes have stalled progress in the climate fight and prevent children from having a fair start in life. More >>
