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What Truth and Reconciliation Looks Like in Practice
Black Lives Matter protests have continued for months, in the wake of what feels like endless police violence. In fact,…
We Are All on Native Land
With three news bureaus nationwide and a partnership with the Associated Press, Indian Country Today brings Native voices to mainstream…
Can Cities Grant Nature the Right to Exist, and Thrive?
From preventing toxic algae blooms to banning aerial pesticide spraying, the fight for local control over environmental decisions elevates the…
What if tax breaks promised to Amazon were instead given to you and your community?
Think outside the Amazon delivery box. You might recall how, throughout 2017 and 2018, the municipal battle to woo Jeff…
The Paper on the Street
How street newspapers in cities empower the people who experience homelessness. In 2011, when Michael Thistle, 60, became homeless after…
I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib
Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…
Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters
Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke visited Michigan last week. Shirtsleeves carefully rolled up, he stood on tabletops across metro Detroit…
Universal Basic Income is a Scam to Further Entrench Us in Capitalism
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a much-touted solution to our increasingly tech-driven society, proposed by everyone from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to conservative libertarian…
Time is a capitalist construct. How do we extract ourselves from it?
You and I are living in a standardized time, right now. Look at the clock on your device. It’s the…
7 buzzwords developers use that mean your community is about to get screwed
There are so many plans these days to “transform” an area via a “public-private partnership” that will “restore” and “fix”…
Meet Oklahoma’s Anti-Privatization, Pro-Pot Candidate for Governor
OKLAHOMA CITY— Connie Johnson is a former Oklahoma state senator, now the Our Revolution-endorsed candidate for governor. She is known…