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Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Climate change is quickly becoming the climate emergency.

Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

H. Jacob Carlson and Gianpaolo Baiocchi Nonprofit Quarterly
What is social housing? The simple answer is that it is a systemic approach to providing homes that treat housing not as a commodity, but as a human right. But to make it more than just a slogan, you need policies and institutions to make that right

America Is Facing a Mental Health Crisis

Bernie Sanders The Guardian
Young people are grappling with challenges that no generation in modern history has been forced to deal with. They need our help now

A Public Power Victory in New York State

Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Socialist Project
“Ninety years ago, FDR [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] established the New York Power Authority to create power for the people. Today we reclaim that power, by the passage of The Build Public Renewables Act