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Big Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers Are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power

In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.

They are taking on debt, cutting back on personal medical care, delaying rent payments and skipping meals so their kids can eat. Federal cuts are poised to make things worse.

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This is the second war Trump is losing. Last year solar and wind power accounted for 99 percent of the growth in world electricity supply, while generation using fossil fuels declined.

As you look at Alabama and other Southern states reintroducing racist gerrymanders, don’t think it can’t happen anywhere else. Trump isn’t building a ballroom for the next guy. It’s up to us to hold the line.

The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.

Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?