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Electric Cars and Lithium Extraction Threaten to Drive Even More Climate Harm
Colonial policies of resource extraction are wreaking environmental havoc in poor countries that pollute the least.
Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
The pandemic showed that localized economies are better equipped to respond to the needs of their communities.
The Greatest Trick COVID Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World It Didn’t Exist
The push to rose-color even the grimmest data stumbles over immunocompromised people like me.
Abd El-Fattah Is a Political Prisoner in Egypt. US Aid Is Funding His Jailers.
Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, voice of the Arab Spring revolutions, began a hunger strike on April 2.
Trump’s Attempt to Shut Down All US Embassies in Africa Epitomizes Today’s GOP
It’s terrifying that this man, who holds a death grip over the Republican Party, could conceivably return to power.
Pennsylvania’s GOP Nominee for Governor Is Arguably the Scariest Man in Politics
Exit Madison Cawthorn, enter Doug Mastriano, and God help us all.
Black Feminism Insists That We Not Treat the Attack on “Roe” as Isolated Issue
The plan to overturn “Roe” occurs in the context of a larger right-wing backlash that is both gendered and racialized.
It’s Primary Night in Pennsylvania, and All Hell Is Set to Break Loose
The outcome in Pennsylvania tonight could shed light on the current disposition of Republican voters more broadly.
“Innocent” White People Are Also Complicit in the Anti-Black Murders in Buffalo
We can’t let the more quotidian operations of whiteness, which feed anti-Black violence every day, off the hook.
Racist Attack in Buffalo Was Crafted to Terrorize Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
We must counter racist attacks with a diversity of tactics from community protection to deradicalizing white Americans.