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When Black Women Organize
Liberals owe Doug Jones’s win to a rich history of black women’s organizing in the South. When will they really start listening?
Liberals owe Doug Jones’s win to a rich history of black women’s organizing in the South. When will they really start listening?
The net neutrality repeal shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.
What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
Policy wonks left and right have sought to blame the U.S. housing crisis on local zoning regulations. But the evidence tells a different story.
In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited.
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But we can’t do it without drastically cutting energy consumption for the global rich.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups have charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
How did a sculptor with neo-Confederate leanings find a home in one of the twentieth century’s most influential liberal salons?
As Emmanuel Macron bypasses French democracy to enact a sweeping pro-business agenda, a new resistance is taking shape.
Almost a year later, pundits are still struggling to understand why Trump won so handily in rural America. The answer lies in the failure of the political system to address, or even acknowledge, small-town economic struggles.
Franco’s legacy and the memory of authoritarian rule in Spain loomed over last week’s Catalan independence referendum—a pivotal episode in a century-long conflict.