The Wisconsin Idea

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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