BORDERS: “Why a Designer Turned the U.S.-Mexico Border Into an Art Installation” / The New Yorker ☮

With shared economic, environmental, and humanitarian concerns, communities of local planners, designers, and citizens work toward cross-border collaboration. Ronald Rael, an architecture professor, takes an opportunity to use art to prove the uselessness of building borders.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Has Capitalism and the GOP Destroyed Religion?” / Thom Hartmann Program / Thom Hartmann ☮

The number of Americans who call themselves Christians or even religious has sharply declined over the last decade and it looks like it is big money pushing people away from their faith.