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In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.

What if a team of people in recovery from drug addiction were enlisted to teach the pharmaceutical executives what it really means to take responsibility?

How changes to California’s Proposition 13 could reduce inequality.

An Israeli company enabled the hacking of American citizens’ phones – possibly including some belonging to government officials.

Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse.

To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces.

Gedakina is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that works with Native American communities on a range of causes, from promoting literacy to restoring ancestral food systems, including the wild rice harvest.

Our elimination of other species probably wasn’t a planned, coordinated effort of the sort practised by civilisations, but a war of attrition. The end result, however, was just as final.

Our culture is saturated with media representations of young black men. Rarely do we see their lives unfold as they do in Hale County This Morning, This Evening—as full inhabitants of their own prosaic and grand humanity.