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Meet the New Generation of "Sidewalk Socialists"

Once elected, how do socialists govern?

Rebecca Burns

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For Many, the Pandemic Was a Wakeup Call About Exploitative Work

The unemployment expansion showed us what work could be like if it was freely chosen.

Marie Solis

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Democratic Socialists of America Make a Strategy for the Biden Era

Delegates chart a socialist future at DSA's 2021 virtual convention.

Roger Kerson

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U.S. Says It Supports a Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver, But Document Reveals It Is Dragging Feet at WTO

Global health advocates say a patent waiver would ease access to Covid vaccines, but the U.S. declined to support as-is a proposal to greenlight the waiver, a summary of a September 14 WTO meeting shows.

Sarah Lazare

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Pedagogy of the Apocalypse

In a year filled with trauma, a university professor learns how to support her students.

Tatiana McInnis

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Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror

At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it's not too late to turn things around.

Sarah Lazare

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The Movement to De-Cop the Campus

Students, educators and staff across the University of California system are organizing to abolish campus police.

Emily Rich

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Afghan Activist: We All Deserve Refuge, Not Just Those Who Served the U.S.

"This was a stupid occupation and invasion where nobody received anything," says Afghan activist Nematullah Ahangosh.

Sarah Lazare

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School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost?

A 10-year-old reflects on remote learning challenges as we head into a new academic year.

Freyja Christian and Aimee Christian

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Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence

My debt is symptomatic of capitalism. It should be canceled.

Nick Marcil

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Military Contractor CACI Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Hurting Its Profits. It's Funding a Pro-War Think Tank.

What CACI reveals about the feedback loop between military contractors and think tanks.

Sarah Lazare

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I Deserve Meaningful Action From My University to Address Anti-Asian Hate

Northwestern students need more than empty statements. It's time for institutional solutions.

Allison Arguezo

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In the Coal Mines, Workers Are Dying to Make a Living

Mining companies increasingly rely on cheaper contractors who face longer hours and higher risk of accidents.

Kari Lydersen

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"We Have To Change the Rules": What AIDS Activists Can Teach Us About the Covid Pandemic

A conversation with current and former ACT UP activists.

Ria Modak

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Tenants Aren't Waiting for the Biden Admin to Save Them

Here's how tenant organizers are mobilizing locally to stem the housing crisis.

Annie Howard

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"Band Aid Over a Bullet Wound": Moratorium Leaves Organizers Relieved, But Braced for New Battles

Activists sound a note of cautious celebration, but say far more is needed to address this country's staggering housing crisis.

Bryce Covert

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Congress Tried To Force Trump to End the Yemen War. Now They’ll Have To Do the Same With Biden.

Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the war: Congress must compel him.

Sarah Lazare

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Why Cubans Protested on July 11

Is this the beginning of the end of fear in Cuba?

Samuel Farber

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Biden's Invisible Border Wall

The Biden administration is expanding surveillance along the Southern border, pushing migrants into harm’s way.

Maurizio Guerrero

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Is Gerrymandering Forever?

Gerrymandering guarantees undemocratic elections. Activists in Wisconsin are organizing to win an uphill battle for a fairer process.

Katjusa Cisar

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How Rich Countries Can End Vaccine Apartheid

Unlike world leaders, activists saw the moral crisis coming since the start of the pandemic and quickly came up with a number of actionable plans to create equitable access to life-saving vaccines.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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"How Many More Have to Die?" Protesters March Against Vaccine Apartheid

Campaigners are targeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel—and the pharmaceutical companies she is protecting.

Indigo Olivier

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The Utopic, Love-Centered, “Liberation Oasis” on Chicago’s South Side

Damon Williams, a co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, talks radical space-building.

Bettina Johnson

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No, Minneapolis Did Not Defund the Police. But We’re Not Done Trying.

We understand that abolition is the long game. We’re in it for as long as it takes.

Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor