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Biden Drags His Feet on Canceling Student Debt Despite Campaign Pledge
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor is a writer, organizer, and documentarian. Her books include the American Book Award winner The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone. Her most recent film is What Is Democracy?
Activists and academics discuss the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college free for all
Canceling student debt would be a boon to debtors and the wider economy, and could be part of a larger wave of progressive action from the Biden administration
Voter suppression was stronger than Bernie Sanders’ voter turnout plan. And the pandemic has made things worse
The time has come for students to connect the dots between ballooning student debt, the poor treatment of campus workers, and the obscene wealth of hedge fund oligarchs
For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Astra Taylor reminds us that the Internet cannot magically produce revolution
While the Internet may create space for many voices, it also reflects and often amplifies real-world inequities in striking ways