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The Media Uses Coal Miners to Attack the Green New Deal While Ignoring Pensions
Major media outlets remain stuck in a reductive “elite vs. blue-collar” divide.
Six States Are Improving Tax Credits for Working Families
These steps come as four senators have proposed a major expansion of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit.
Trump’s Fixation on Intellectual Property Rights Serves the Rich
Increased enforcement benefits the already-wealthy owners of intellectual property claims.
15 States Have Already Taken Steps to Make the Electoral College Obsolete
Momentum is growing among state legislatures to award electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
Will San Francisco Become the Second City to Tax Extreme CEO-Worker Pay Gaps?
In November, voters in San Francisco will decide the fate of a proposed tax to penalize large CEO-worker pay gaps.
American Dark Money Is Fueling the Rise of Europe’s Far Right
America’s Christian right has spent at least $50 million in the last decade to fund campaigns and advocacy in Europe.
The Global Beef Trade Is Destroying the Amazon
The latest data shows that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen by 73% since 2012.
Jeffrey Epstein Is Exhibit A for Capitalism’s Moral Bankruptcy
Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes in our criminal legal system.
The US Is Quietly Opening Shelters for Babies and Young Kids Without Mothers
One Phoenix facility housed 12 children ages 5 and under, some as young as 3 months old, all without their mothers.
Climate Adaptation Needs to Put Human Rights Above Property Values
Every dollar spent on sea walls is a dollar not invested into actual carbon reduction.