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Want to Create More Jobs? Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.
Energy efficiency creates more jobs than fossil fuels -- and at a faster rate and lower cost.
Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy
“Teaching for Black Lives” offers educators insights into intersectional Black identities and overlapping oppressions.
What Is Insider Trading, the Crime Rep. Chris Collins Was Charged With?
People sharing nonpublic information about a company for personal gain is illegal, but commonplace.
Danny Glover on New Film “Sorry to Bother You” and the Myth of a Postracial US
Glover discusses how we’ve gotten the “American Dream” so wrong.
Psychological Resources in Latinx Struggle Against Systemic Oppression
In these turbulent times, Latinx people are drawing strength from their community's history of struggle.
“Exhaling a Low Freedom Song”: Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism
The state is using carceral techniques to fill revenue gaps created by shrinking tax bases.
Hegemony Is Never Complete: Using Gramsci to Understand the Arab Uprisings
The ideas of the famous Italian Marxist can help us make sense of authoritarianism and building movements from below.
Efforts to Undermine Iran Nuclear Deal Warrant Greater Public Outcry
The most destabilizing force of the past 25 years in the Middle East was not Iran; it was the United States.
Think Confederate Monuments Are Racist? Consider Pioneer Monuments
These statues ignore the cost of white settlement on Native lands, reinforce white dominance and erase ethnic diversity.
Socialism on the Campaign Trail
Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs provides an inspiring example of how revolutionaries participate in elections.