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Building Inspiration: Architecture and Black Liberation
A more honest narrative of the Black experience in the US should recall and hold high Black pioneers in the field of architecture.
Ecuador Puts Piketty Into Practice
The American people are deeply concerned about rising wealth inequality.
Treating Ebola Has Focused on the Physical – but There Will Be Mental Scars Too
To date, only few, and largely uncoordinated, efforts have been made to address the mental health needs of victims.
Commentary: For-Profit Hospitals Mark Up Prices Because There’s Nothing to Stop Them
Of the 50 US hospitals that mark up prices the most, 49 of them are part of for-profit hospital chains.
Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street Address
Clinton's loyalists were presenting her to us as the reincarnation of the young woman she was in the seventies and eighties.
Mass Protests Trigger Ongoing Investigations of Police Homicides
If police continue to kill citizens at this rate, more than 1,000 people will die at the hands of police by the end of this year.
Damming the Future: The Struggle to Protect Kenya’s Ewaso Ngiro River
Indigenous people are coming together to resist the construction of a mega-dam along the only reliable river in the arid north of the country.
Calls Mount for a National Moratorium on Charter Schools
Making public education more accountable has been the solemn pledge of government officials for years, except when it comes to charter schools.
Inside the Power Plant Fueling the US Drought
The Navajo Generating Station is a monument to humanity's outsized confidence that it would always be possible to engineer new solutions to an arid region's environmental limits.
What NAFTA Can Teach Us About the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal
NAFTA has served as a template for agreements that cover US “free trade” relations, but opponents maintain it is a cautionary tale of what can go wrong.