The Wisconsin Idea

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Illinois Bill Would Allow Cops to Spy on Protesters Using Drones With Facial-Recognition Technology

Putting this new surveillance power in the hands of police would threaten the most basic right to assemble.

Matthew McLoughlin

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Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry?

Here's why climate justice campaigners protested the big bank's shareholder meeting last week.

Kate Aronoff

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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