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The Scourge of Dependency and Globalization in the Caribbean
Improving conditions of Caribbean societies requires social movements that believe in an alternative future.
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Sprinklers Off, Still Homeless
What are we doing about the continuing criminalization of homelessness and poverty?
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The Hazards of Your Daily Commute
Fossil fuels aren't just warming our climate, they're polluting the air we breathe.
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Trickle-Down Economics and Trickle-Down Poverty
Trickle-down poverty is all-too-true at the level of families and households.
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How Filibusters Are Like Zombies
It took the Senate a few decades to feel the full force of its mistake.
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Must Not Give Up Public Land for Market-Rate Development
A city plan to use public land for market-rate, rather than fully affordable housing, just doesn't make economic sense.
In Greece, New Commission Will Audit All National Debt
The new commission will determine which part is illegal, illegitimate, unsustainable or odious.
Plutocracy the First Time Around: Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age
Americans of the 19th century managed sustained resistance to plutocratic rule.
Rousseff’s Brazil: No Country for the Landless
Some 200,000 peasant farmers still have no plot of their own to farm.
In a Win for Opponents of Mountaintop Removal, West Virginia Government Will Study Health Impacts
For decades, people in southern West Virginia have suffered from elevated rates of health problems like lung cancer.