By Andreína Chávez Alava The Venezuelan government marked the 13th anniversary of Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission (GMVV) by celebrating the 4.9 millionth home delivered to working-class families. On April 30, President Nicolás Maduro unveiled the…
Alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature By Sammi Bennett & Krystyna Swiderska Across the world, people are questioning dominant narratives of social progress based on capital accumulation and natural resource extraction….
By Lynn Parramore Consider a tale of two babies born in the same American city, Jake and Justin. Jake, born into an economically secure white family, is primed for success. His grandparents set up a…
On any given day in 2020, roughly 630,000 people were locked up in local jails. The majority of them had not been convicted of a crime. After an arrest—wrongful or not—a person’s ability to leave…
By Victor Pickard It’s been a particularly brutal stretch for American journalism. Even for an industry that’s become synonymous with precarity and crisis, the recent job losses have been jolting. The Los Angeles Times announced…
Commentary by Lynn Murphy and Alhoor Ladha We are wrapping up yet another tumultuous year in which wars and disasters have ravaged communities across the world. These misfortunes have added to the misery of those…
For Free School Lunch and More By Julia Conley A new “millionaire’s tax” in Massachusetts was expected to generate $1 billion in revenue last year to help pay for public education, infrastructure, and early childcare…
Data Shows Why We Need a Billionaire Tax By Jake Johnson An analysis released in early January shows that in 2022, the wealthiest people in the United States collectively held a “staggering” $8.5 trillion in…
By Jason Hickel We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to…
Commentary by Clayton Dalton Earlier this year, I stood outside the hospital in New Mexico where I worked as an emergency physician. I was, for the first time, picketing. The next day I would be…