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A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.

The European takeaway

We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.

The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

Use media to fight

Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds

From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..

Native American activist moves to home imprisonment after Joe Biden commuted sentence at end of presidency