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It uses fines and fees on poor people to raise funds, while limiting taxes on property owners and the rich

Spread the word, because the midterms elections have become even more crucial

We are stumbling — seemingly oblivious — into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it’s not here

Wins for Amazon and Starbucks workers shows labor movement surging after years of decline – but pushback has been fierce.

This new book is a contribution to our understanding of the last half century of both U.S. and global economic policy.

Evolutionary theorists propose that female desire for domineering males helped create a patriarchal world

In the early years of the Cold War, the academic study of international relations was an ideological tool serving the foreign policy of the United States and its allies. But in the 1960s, a new generation of scholars began to challenge the reigning orthodoxy.

As African-American families leave Chicago, the percentage of poor black students in the suburbs has grown dramatically, straining already cash-strapped school districts.

To counter the FCC’s attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating the Internet like the public good it is.

Labor still has the power to throw sand in the gears of exploitation. The next step is for all these disparate troublemakers to start seeing their workplace struggles—from defending pensions to defending refugees—as part of the same bigger movement.