By Damon Orion Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic and social conditions and the Black Panther Party’s…
The only alternative to the tech oligarchy By Jason Koebler The TikTok ban and Donald Trump’s rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social…
By Trinity Tran On the night of Jan. 7, as the Palisades Fire surged to 2,000 acres to the west and the Eaton Fire exploded to 1,000 to the east, I joined thousands fleeing hurricane-force…
Review of The Fantasy Economy by Neil Kraus By Nora De La Cour “Bachelor’s degree holders generally earn 75 percent more than those with just a high school diploma,” asserts a stats-packed CNBC article with…
Commentary by Yasha Levine Lynda and Stewart Resnick—the oligarch pistachio farmers of Beverly Hills—are currently going viral. Influencers are out making tiktoks, tweets, and reels. They’re outraged at finding out that one Los Angeles billionaire…
Launching Worker-Owned Outlets By Angela Fu When staff at the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal decided to unionize in March, they were almost immediately hit with layoffs. The paper’s parent company, a…
By David Sirota Dear Elon and Vivek: Congratulations on launching the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency! I’m confident that fears about plutocratic authoritarianism will be quelled by your willingness to create this federal department…
By Claudia Ward–de León I live in rural New England, a place where driving a car is my only option if I need to get to a doctor, a specialty store like a hardware or…
An Example from Neuchâtel, Switzerland Commentary by Nick Corbishley As the world becomes steadily digitized, it is getting harder and harder to do even the simplest of tasks offline, while surveillance, control and censorship of…
How the West’s Military Emissions Undermine Climate Action By Nadia Ahmad As world leaders are finalizing another round of climate negotiations, they continue to sidestep the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gas emissions: the…