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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

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What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Three historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history.

Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

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The Growing Movement to End U.S. Complicity in Colombia's Human Rights Abuses

Activists are calling on Congress to freeze funding to the country's repressive security forces, and House progressives have taken note.

Cruz Bonlarron Martínez

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The Supreme Court Has Upheld the ACA. The Next Frontier? Medicare for All.

With Obamacare intact, progressives are aiming to move toward a universal, single-payer healthcare system.

Jessica Corbett

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Secret IRS Files Reveal Just How Little the Wealthiest Pay in Income Tax

Documents obtained by ProPublica show billionaires like Elon Musk contribute a pittance relative to their earnings—and sometimes nothing at all.

Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel

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The Perils of an “America First” Climate Policy

To meet his climate promises, Biden will have to abandon the U.S. tradition of hawkish nationalism in favor of global cooperation.

Kate Aronoff

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Wisconsin’s Incarcerated Wait for Vaccines

Incarcerated people and their advocates criticize state agencies for lag in administering vaccines.

Arvind Dilawar

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The Dream of a Unionized New Orleans Is Coming True

The pandemic was the first big test for New Orleans' hospitality unions. They passed with flying colors.

Hamilton Nolan

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House Progressives Are Urging Democrats to Ditch the GOP and Pass a Bold Infrastructure Plan

Facing obstruction from Mitch McConnell and Republicans, a group of nearly 60 Democratic lawmakers are pushing for an investment "that truly meets this historic moment."

Kenny Stancil