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The Other Housing Crisis: Finding a Home in Rural America
Rural families are more likely to be impoverished than the rest of the nation.
The Tracks of John Boehner’s Tears
The former speaker of the House left Capitol Hill last year, but not for long. He's back in the lobbying industry and making a ton of cash.
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Report Slams EPA Civil Rights Compliance
The nation's top environmental regulator, the EPA, has failed to meet its civil rights obligations.
Farmworkers Taste the Fruits of Victory
After waging countless work stoppages and an international boycott, 500 farmworkers have finally won union recognition.
Still Caught in the Can’t-Catch-Up Economy
Has the economic recovery filtered down to the working class, more than seven years after the official end of the Great Recession?
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Trump, Clinton and the Illusion of Everlasting US Hegemony
Both Trump and Clinton believe US hegemony should be an everlasting reality. We need to change the conversation.
The US Is a Country, Not a Business
Thanks to Reaganomics, we have nearly lost our country.
Safe [White] Spaces
My time at Brooklyn Co-op taught me a lot about how liberal democratic spaces fail to identify intersectionalities of exploitation.
Living While Black in the US Is to Resist Being Defined by Others
How I define myself and my Black joy, pain, hope or sadness in those moments is insignificant to them and how they define us.
Police Kill Alfred Olango, Unarmed Black Man, During His Mental Health Emergency
Police in California killed an unarmed Black man Tuesday after his sister called 911 to report her brother was having a mental health emergency.