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Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

"The victory of freeing Leonard Peltier is a symbol of our collective strength—and our resistance will never stop," vowed one Indigenous organizer.

We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

Economists have seriously failed the public in important areas over the last three decades. And these failures played a role in fostering the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades. People have a right to be angry.

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.

As 8,000 employees lost their jobs last month in a cost-cutting reorganization, the Cargill-MacMillan family for the first time since 2019 received profit-sharing payments.

“The Young Lords Organization turned political because we found out that just giving gifts wasn’t going to help our people; we had to deal with the system that was messing them over."

By pitting Black and Brown communities against each other, shadow actors promote the false notion that democracy and equality are in competition with each other, rather than shared objectives.