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How Your Tax Dollars Are Wasted to Build Luxury Apartments
“Subsidize our house, not the penthouse!” protesters chanted last month.
One Food Security Remedy in the Face of Global Crises
Once known mostly as a Pacific Island crop, breadfruit is now grown around the world as a sustainable means of fighting hunger.
Iran, Stubborn History and a Toast to the Future
Good stuff all around, and very hopeful . . . but it does beg the question: How did we get here?
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Three Reasons Why the United States Is Broken, Bloated and Bleeding
Facing inequality, police militarization and spiraling military costs, what kind of country will we be?
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.