We can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight. Society must start treating this as a crisis

You would think that amid a pandemic, when employment has collapsed and hunger has risen, social wealth would be diverted from the police to erase starvation, but that is not how the society of entrenched class hierarchy works

In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the Covid-19 crisis in its New American community

The Democratic Party is not attempting to expand — they merely want enough votes to maintain the status quo.

In his speech to the Democratic National Convention, Sanders urged people to fight “against greed, oligarchy and bigotry” by voting President Trump out of office in November

Concerns about access to healthcare and preventing COVID-19 loom large among tomato harvesters in Florida

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the essential roles care work and reproductive labor fulfill in our societies. But will it lead to gender liberation?

In November, we will be offered a choice between a common-variety American politician and a dictator. Wake up, folks, we are living in a 21st-century American version of 1933 Germany

The people’s victory, the Black victory, on June 30, 2020 to cut the LASPD budget by $25 million and 35% was a damn hard fought and wonderful victory that the whole movement should celebrate, propagate, and emulate

Or Setting America’s Schools Up to Fail

he idea that we would not address pressing needs, like climate change, child care, and health care because we are concerned about the debt burden is close to crazy. As long as the economy is not near its capacity, there is zero reason not to spend to address these priorities

Source: Informed Comment The government of far right Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu cut off fuel for the sole power plant in…

A recent surge in youth-led climate activism has revived a near decade-long effort to divest New York from the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis

Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions

Medicare for All has won the battle of ideas. Now we have to win the battle against entrenched economic and political power.

Just imagine how Portland could become a beacon of light for the rest of the nation. Imagine if other cities followed in our footsteps. Imagine if We the People began to recognize that our most nationally transformative work could be done locally.

U.S. residents have fewer voting rights today than they did after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965

After the city council approved $150 million in budget cuts, Texas leaders proposed capping tax revenue for cities that defund police

These young people have their entire lives ahead of them, and  they see a grim future, and that is why they are so fucking angry

Why most of the city’s Black council members shot down a proposal to defund the police