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First Silicon Valley Sold You Social Media. Now It’s Trying to Sell You the Antidote.
It turns out that selling solutions to problems created by the tech industry presents a tremendous business opportunity.
Julianne Tveten
Culture
A Brief Case for Guaranteed Housing
Why housing should be a human right.
Dayton Martindale
Labor
YMCA Childcare Workers Just Went On Strike. Here’s Why.
Rebecca Burns
Rural America
What if Organic Standards Were Bioregional and Written by Real Organic Farmers?
John Ikerd
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Landlords, Your Lease Is Up: A New Movement for Rent Control Is Spreading Across the U.S.
Tenant activists, local unions, community organizations and socialists are leading campaigns to regulate rents and weaken the market's grip on housing.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
It’s Never Been About the Second Amendment. It’s About Corporate Profits.
Our bought-and-paid-for politicians only hold the Constitution sacred when it aligns with corporate interests—like gun sales.
Leonard C. Goodman
Labor
West Virginia Teachers Are Now Out on a Wildcat Strike. The Labor Movement Should Follow Their Lead.
Kate Aronoff
Viewpoint
The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture
The origins of the U.S. gun obsession lie in the violent dispossession of Native Americans.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Labor
Amid a Fast-Food Industry Plagued By Sexual Harassment, This Mother and Daughter Said “No More”
Bryce Covert
Labor
These Teachers Refuse to Be Weaponized
Michelle Chen
Viewpoint
Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle
From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.
Charles Cobb Jr.
Labor
The Trump Admin’s Infrastructure Plan Doubles Down on a System That Doesn’t Work
Hunter Blair, Economic Policy Institute
Rural America
Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party
Thomas Linzey
Feature
How a Small City in Pennsylvania Became A White Nationalist Target
Energized by Trump, outright white supremacists are moving from the fringes into active roles in local Pennsylvania politics.
Michael Deibert
Culture
And the Oscar for Best Protest Goes To…
Awards show activism, then and now.
Joel Bleifuss
Viewpoint
We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up
Solutions rooted in policing and prisons just contribute to a culture of violence.
Daniel Denvir
Feature
What Italy’s “Potere al Popolo” Can Teach Us About Building a Popular Party of the Left
This party is rejecting the false choice between a Europe united under the misery of austerity, or one united under the horrors of racism and bigotry.
Valentina Dallona
Labor
3 Democratic Campaigns Now Have Staff Unions. Why Not More?
Kate Aronoff
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