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YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.

Toshio Meronek

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The Never-Ending Nakba

Israel mass-expelled Palestinians from their lands in 1948. The displacement hasn't stopped since.

Rahul Saksena

Labor

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

Lois Weiner

Viewpoint

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

How Facebook helped make the wave of teachers’ strikes possible.

Lois Weiner

Labor

Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat

Michael Arria

Rural America

An Informed Public Threatens Those in Power, But Our Public Is No Threat

CELDF

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The Only Explanation for Why the NRA Has Chosen Oliver North as its New President

The selection of North, a known war criminal, shows that the NRA is fully embracing its role as an extremist right-wing organization.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

We’re All Zucked

Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data.

Jacob Silverman

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Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment

On Tuesday, insurgent challengers beat out their opponents in races across the country by running on bold left platforms.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Palestinians Are Forcing the World to See Their Humanity

The Gaza massacre is a war crime. And the United States is complicit alongside Israel.

Phyllis Bennis

Labor

From The Women’s March to The Poor People’s Campaign, A Call for Economic Human Rights

Cathy Albisa

Labor

Seattle Just Showed How to Rein In Amazon—And the Company Is Going to War

Daniel Moattar

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Watch This Palestinian-American Woman Crush Every Media Trope About the Gaza Protests

Noura Erakat delivers a much-needed corrective to dehumanizing U.S. media spin.

Sarah Lazare

Rural America

The Perils of High Fashion and the 1918 Migratory Bird Act Treaty

Angela Serratore

Dispatch

Serfdom in the Magic Kingdom: Disney Workers Rise Up Against Poverty Wages

The happiest place on earth pays so little that some of its workers are homeless.

Bryce Covert

Viewpoint

These Statistics Show Why Gazans Are Risking Their Lives To Protest Israel

The humanitarian crisis and the current death toll.

Sasha Kramer

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As Israel Kills Dozens, Gazans Continue to Protest. A Palestinian Woman Explains Why.

"This is a revolution of refugees," says Intimaa Alsdudi.

Alex Kane

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A Democratic Spring: 12 Left Challengers Taking On the Party Establishment in 2018

The scattering of challenges to the Democratic establishment after Bernie Sanders’ run has become a tidal wave.

Theo Anderson