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ECONOMY The Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income as a Cure—Should Progressives Be Cheering?

Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the…

Cooperative Banking for Black Lives

MINNEAPOLIS—On an unseasonably warm Friday in late January, African-American business owners, activists, advocates, musicians, politicians and artists toasted with a…

Is higher education worth the price tag?

If you want a higher education in the United States, you need to have money. The average cost of a college…

Dark Communities are Healthier Communities

Have you ever seen the Milky Way? The very galaxy we are a part of? I have. But I had…

Congestion Pricing: Regressive tax or saving grace?

Cab driver Doug Schifter committed suicide last week, severely distraught due to the crushing weight of the gig economy. Uber,…

Smart cities look to their citizens, not multi-national corporations

U.S. cities, it seems, sometimes are setting themselves up for decay, with big tax giveaways, ever-rising prices and systems that put the bulk of…

Longreads, on my “What are you?” piece

Read their take here.

Building net neutrality, locally, nationwide

Fort Collins, Colorado is planning to build its own internet service utility, trumping the Federal Communications Commission’s move last month…

Why we must think long-term

Whenever the conversation turns to our country’s current situation and immediate future, people say we’re screwed. I hear that over…

Five big myths sold by the defenders of capitalism

I’ve been writing about the economic and environmental realities of marginalized communities for some time, primarily from the perspective of…

Why “Miracle on 34th Street” is a feminist classic

As a young girl, I watched reruns of “I Love Lucy” with my mom every day after school. I remember…

Santa Claus is a marketing gimmick. Let’s consider replacing him.

How Coca-Cola Invented Christmas As We Know It When you see Santa today, all fat and jolly and rosy-cheeked, you’re…