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Are Wealthy Donors Influencing the Public School Agenda?
Of late, out-of-state donors are writing very checks to support candidates and PACs in local school board elections.
What Trump Means for the Economy
Donald Trump and congressional Republicans will be able to pass an agenda that puts middle-class Americans at risk.
In the US Elections, Planet Earth Loses
The environment is going to take some massive hits at a time when the evidence of climate change is right before our eyes.
How NAFTA’s Chapter 11 Overrides Environmental Laws
How corporate legal maneuvering used NAFTA to elevate a company's right to profit over a government's right to protect its citizens and the environment.
Something to Celebrate: Six Women Who Won Historic Firsts
A woman was not elected to the highest office. But other women who ran on platforms of equality and progressive reform did win.
Listening With Respect: What Made Studs Terkel a Great Interviewer
Alan Wieder discusses his new book on the life and unique work of oral historian and American icon Studs Terkel.
Henry A. Giroux | The Authoritarian Politics of Resentment in Trump’s America
Neoliberalism has channeled a potent politics of anger into individualized resentment that seeks vengeance.
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White Nationalism Lives and White People Need to Fight It
How do we divest from white nationalism?
For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror
Abolition, then, is the only answer to a system whose currency is terror.
Wells Fargo, You Can Run but You Can’t Hide: A Homeowner’s Testimony
One homeowner, Therese Crowley, fell into the proverbial rabbit hole when she put her faith in Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.