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How Arts and Organizing Helped Defeat Alabama’s Anti-Immigration Law
While much of the media coverage has focused on the work of large legal aid groups, I saw firsthand the power and impact that community and arts organizing played …
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What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take?
In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequality's deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal …
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In ‘Nuestro Texas,’ A Call for Human Rights in Reproductive Health Care
A new report on access to reproductive health care in the Rio Grande Valley highlights the human rights violations happening right in the US.
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Big Business Is Hugely Responsible for Our Major Unemployment Crisis, So Why Is Obama Turning to Them for Solutions?
The longer you're out of a job, the harder it becomes to land a new one.
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Olympics Venues Don’t Pay Off in Long Run
Might it be time to scale back the Olympics to a more reasonable level?
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The PTSD Crisis That’s Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods
A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Four Thousand Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Internet Surveillance, and More
These programs and rulings are violating our civil rights, but they're also waking the sleeping giant of progressive activists.
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Capitalism’s Crisis of Value and Imagination
In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …
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An Elegantly Simple Way to Revolutionize Government
A game theory-inspired mechanism is proposed to destroy the evil root of mass deception in politics.
In Latin American Votes, Honduran Movements Cement Role While El Salvador Poised for Historic Shift
Historian and Latin America expert Greg Grandin looks at two recent elections in Latin America with historic implications.