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Apple Doesn’t Want You To Be Able To Fix Your iPhone—Here’s Why

The cure for planned Apple-escence

Kendra Pierre-Louis

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The Brooklyn Tenant Union That’s Fighting Gentrification Through Collective Bargaining

For the past two years, the Crown Heights Tenant Union of Brooklyn has used collective bargaining strategies to win victories around rent control and tenant protection laws.

Ethan Corey

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The Climate-Change Movement Is Winning the Argument—Now It Must Force the Government To Act

How can we turn up the heat on Washington.

Kate Aronoff

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How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons

Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore.

Dayton Martindale

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Is Banning Tourists the Solution to Gentrification?

A 'tourist cap' might be in the works in Barcelona to fight rising costs of living and disorderly behavior.

Martin de Bourmont

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How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing

The next Baltimore could be somewhere in Europe.

Amien Essif

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Civil Rights: The Next Generation

What happens in Baltimore isn’t going to stay in Baltimore

Martha Biondi

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How Some Small Farmers Are Resisting Monsanto—And Climate Change

Seed sharers are resisting the death of biodiversity at the hands of industrial agriculture and GMOs.

Petra Page-Mann

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A Privatized River Runs Through It

To win its eminent domain suit, Missoula must prove that it is the best manager of its drinking water.

Kate Whittle

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Don’t Cry for Chicago, Progressives

Mayor 1% wasn’t the only winner in April.

Micah Uetricht

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Yoopers Have Road Rage

Michiganders are up in arms about a proposed mining road

Kari Lydersen

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Could Elizabeth Warren Really Run Against Hillary Clinton?

Some are holding out for a progressive alternative to a Clinton coronation.

Jessica Stites

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America’s Tween Soldiers

Middle schoolers: Uncle Sam wants you

Seth Kershner

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Harvard Feels the Heat on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

It's not Al Gore's movement anymore. Student activists are bringing a new militancy to the fight against climate change.

Kate Aronoff

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Is There Anything Wrong with GMOs?

Monsanto is malevolent, but some scientists say Frankenfoods can do good.

Molly Bennet

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Tending Dixie’s Racial Wounds

Does a story-sharing program offer a chance at Southern reconciliation?

Theo Anderson

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Why One Community Voted to Tax Itself

Public mental healthcare has been gutted in the past 50 years. An innovative Illinois law may provide an answer.

Anne-Marie Cusac

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Chomsky, Lears and Elia Debate Whether an Academic Boycott of Israel Can Work

Is the tactic the best way to pressure Israel?

Joel Bleifuss

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Meet the Radical Brownies

A Oakland girls' troop is inspired by the Girl Scouts ... and the Brown Berets.

Aviana Willis

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The Women Behind Black Lives Matter

The 'leaderless' movement is being propelled by the efforts of women of color.

Kendra Pierre-Louis

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Police Body Cams: Solution or Scam?

Debating the technophiles’ favorite fix for police violence

Osita Nwanevu

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A New Strategy To Make the Banks Pay

Youngstown, Ohio, may have found the cure to the national plague of abandoned properties.

Laura Gottesdiener

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Should We Oppose the Intervention Against ISIS?

Most U.S. leftists say yes. But voices we rarely hear—Kurds and members of the Syrian opposition—have more ambiguous views.

Danny Postel

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Is Gentrification Inevitable?

Some activists are trying to beat back the tide of the market.

Yana Kunichoff