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A New Deal for Wall Street

Trump’s plans for mass privatization are a colossal giveaway to the 1%—and Democrats helped pave the way.

Rebecca Burns July 20, 2017

Rebecca Burns is an In These Times contributing editor and award-winning investigative reporter. Her work has appeared in Bloomberg, the Chicago Reader, ProPublica, The Intercept, and USA Today. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns.

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Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

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A masculine figure in a baseball cap stands with his back to the camera. His bright yellow shirt reads "Safe accessible truly affordable homes -- KC Tenants Union". Divers figures in yellow shirts stand int he background.

Housing

A National Tenants Union Has Arrived

Local tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big landlords.

Rebecca Burns

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What Biden's "Rent Cap" Is, and Isn't

It’s an ideological win for the left that won’t actually cap rents–but opens the door to other, bolder federal action.

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