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Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes
These are the corporations profiting from e-carceration.
James Kilgore
Dispatch
This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor
Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.
Theo Anderson
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Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration
In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp
Winona LaDuke
Labor
Nearly 5,000 JetBlue Flight Attendants Just Voted To Unionize, in a Major Win for Airline Labor
Sarah Lahm
Labor
Rotten and Rat-Infested: The Appalling Food and Healthcare Conditions Facing Inmates in U.S. Prisons
Michelle Chen
Labor
Puerto Rico’s Major Newspapers Laid Off Reporters Just When the Island Needed Them the Most
Katherine Braden
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Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change
From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.
Samuel Miller-McDonald
Rural America
The House Farm Bill Ignores What Farmers Want (and Farm Groups Call BS)
Karen Perry Stillerman
Labor
West Virginia Teachers and the Return of Labor Feminism
Rachel Johnson
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Yaser Murtaja Was Killed by Israel While Reporting From Gaza. His Death Is One of Many.
Israel has a long-standing pattern of killing Palestinian journalists and attacking media institutions.
Alex Kane
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The Zuckerberg Hearings Were a Show Trial, And Facebook’s Monopoly Remains Unthreatened
Despite public outrage, Congress is not taking meaningful steps to break the power of Facebook.
Julianne Tveten
Labor
The GOP Tax Plan Was Sold On a Baseless Theory. Now It’s Being Exposed As a Giveaway to the Rich.
Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair
Dispatch
These Community Activists Won Bail Reform. Now They Have To Force Judges To Comply.
Thousands of people still sit in Chicago’s Cook County Jail because they are too poor to afford bail.
Alex V. Hernandez
Rural America
In Washington State, the Supreme Court Will Test U.S. Commitment to Native American Treaties
Monte Mills
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Senate Democrats Offer Little-to-No Opposition to Trump’s Expansion of Syria Bombings
Ninety-two percent of Senate Democrats and Independents failed to substantively dissent against Trump's April 13 airstrikes.
Sarah Lazare
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West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is
“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’”
Kate Aronoff
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Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
And that may be the tip of the iceberg.
Simon Davis-Cohen and Sarah Lazare
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