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Home Truths About the Climate Emergency
COP22 again highlighted the mismatch between illusive policymaking and the stark reality of global warming.
No More Holiday Gifts for Repressive Regimes
The US is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.
A Ph.D. in Organizing
Graduate students at private universities are organizing to join the ranks of the unionized.
A Year of US Militarism
US militarism was on full display in 2016 with a continued “war on terror” and bombing in at least five countries.
Climate Change 2016: The Year the Future Arrived
We have the technologies to prevent dangerous climate change in time frames that matter — will we use them in 2017?
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Is Keeping People of Color From Voting the Key to GOP Electoral Dominance?
Crosscheck is the GOP's Great White Hope Machine, the approaching Death Star of voter suppression.
Trump’s Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and in some cases, wrongly, foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages.
The Fight to Rein in NSA Surveillance: 2016 in Review
It's been a busy year on a number of fronts as we continue to fight to rein in the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance of innocent people.
Participatory Budgeting in Action: An Interview With Filmmaker Ines Sommer
Ines Sommer talks about her documentary “Count Me In” on the spread of participatory budgeting in Chicago.
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The Many Possible Meanings of Trump’s Nuclear Tweets
What Trump says today may not apply tomorrow.