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Half of Americans, namely homeowners, already have rent control. It’s time to expand it to everyone.

The Covenants Homeownership Account Act provides compensation in the form of substantial mortgage assistance to victims and their descendants. It was written with a view to overcoming legal challenges that might derail programs that are overtly race based. Instead, this law is “harm based.”

Is tech taking us over a cliff, or giving us wings?

Elites who tar their critics in the U.S. with the sly pejorative of “populist” count on our collective amnesia. They’d rather the real Populists remained forgotten, along with the potential they represented.

Free Black Mamas DMV in 2017 is a self-described Black women and femme-run abolitionist campaign seeking to end the country’s current carceral system. The effort is part of the National Bail Out, a collective of local and national Black-led organizations that plan Mama’s Day Bail Out events around the country. 

Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics.

A new procedure for donating hearts and other organs is saving lives. But for some it challenges the definition of death.

The far right’s victory in elections for the Constitutional Council may be the death knell for a progressive constitution in Chile. It’s also a needed wake-up call for the Chilean left.

The new decennial Religion Census offers cause for hope — and alarm — for both parties.

The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.