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Since 2020, the Guild has grown faster than any other CWA sector or district, organizing more than 8,500 workers.

The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a wide ranging discussion about social justice-oriented responses to the politics of our constructed, lived environment.

"Republicans knew their tax breaks for billionaires would force over half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts—and they did it anyway," said Rep. Brendan Boyle.

Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s immigration dragnet since January, an analysis of deportation data shows.

"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs.

Tech and politics

The internet has robbed the world of much of its mystery and replaced it with the jaded cynicism of online grifters. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cloud explores this bleak world dominated by people who just can’t log off.

Instead of trying to make elections more secure, Trump’s laying the groundwork for election theft in plain sight.

Not everyone is excited about the resurgence of brutalism. But the rise of neobrutalist projects shows how the polarizing architectural style can also be a pragmatic use of scarce resources.