Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?
We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…
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Why Hospitals Are Building Housing
As U.S. coronavirus infections rolled past 30,000 this weekend, approximately one in four Americans is under some kind of order…
How Native Hawaiians Are Taking Internet Access Into Their Own Hands
There is a sovereign, 55-acre territory on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, Pu‘uhonua o Waimanalo, that, for the first time,…
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…
De-colonial Joy: Puerto Rico’s Community Currency
While the United States has some of the most successful community currencies in use, such as the BerkShare , surprisingly few Americans…
The Case to Repair, and Not to Replace
The Right to Repair movement rejects the primacy of disposable culture and proprietary technology. How proposed legislation could notch a…
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…
About those Rocket Mortgage commercials
My take, for National Lampoon’s Final Edition Radio Hour: Apply Simply. Sign Quickly. Bend over.
Fight for your right to repair
You might remember, not that long ago, your town had a camera repair shop. It was probably a mom-and-pop place,…
NPR “Stateside” interview
You can hear me on NPR-Michigan Radio’s show “Stateside”: New immigrants turning to a community-based banking alternative to build savings, trust
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…