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New Legacy Fund Should Be Used to Ensure Compensation for World Cup Workers.

“We have clear evidence that people that ran on progressive platforms or were for working families won competitive elections … For too long, there has been a backwards D.C. idea that progressives shouldn’t run in competitive districts.” 

Creating a new international economic order "sounds like an impossible dream," said the former Greek finance minister, but "not more impossible than the principle of one person, one vote, or of the end of the divine right of kings once sounded."

The Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) in Providence, Rhode Island works to give immigrant farmers opportunities to sell what they grow to wholesale markets.

The New School reached a tentative contract agreement with its part-time faculty this weekend, ending a strike that lasted nearly a month.

Holding the government accountable for its lack of preparedness is crucial. However, given the sheer scale of the impact of the climate crisis on the Global South, talking about adaptation has its limitations.

The pandemic exacerbated a preexisting and long-standing shortage of teachers. The shortage is, instead, the result of a lack of qualified teachers willing to work in what has long been a highly stressful job for compensation that is well below what is available to college-educated workers in other professions.

The company is doing what’s made sense for years—and what the Bush and Obama administrations made possible.

In the 1970s a group of African American experimental jazz improvisors organized musician-sponsored concerts in a network of lower Manhattan lofts. The music they produced was not only sonically adventurous, much of it was also driven by a host of social concerns. Michael Heller has published a new history of this movement. Michael J. Agovino helps guide us through this important cultural moment.

The Women's March on Washington has the potential to be a unifying event if organizers and participants fully recognize that calls for solidarity often ring hollow for black women and that many black women see the recent election as the latest iteration of white feminists’ betrayal.