L.A. Captures 96 Bn Gallons of Stormwater
By Ian James Heavy rains this winter and spring sent torrential flows down local creeks and rivers, and L.A. County managed to capture and store a significant amount of that stormwater, officials say. To be…
Keeping Cool in 100° Heat Without AC
By Èlia Borràs If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the…
The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy: Black Lives
By Adam Mahoney A lawsuit filed five years ago charged several U.S. tech companies with complicity in child labor. Among said companies was Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. Tucked into that lawsuit is…
Haw River Tribunal Puts a Pipeline on Trial
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
Breaking Up With Capitalism
By Marjorie Kelly “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism,” wrote Mark Fisher in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism [quoting Fredric Jameson]. This sense pervades…
United for a Fair Economy
Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…
May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement
—and the World By Shawn Fain Members of the United Auto Workers courageously fought corporate greed at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis last fall during the historic six-week Stand-Up Strike. Because of their determination and…
What If Labor Owned Its Workplaces?
An Interview with Alex Hemingway By David Moscrop Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist and public finance policy analyst Alex Hemingway about his new cowritten report, Expanding Democratic…
Is It time to Reassess the Concept of Money?
By Stuart Kells In the classic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, depositors demand their money from a small-town building society. Its manager, George Bailey (in an unforgettable performance by James Stewart), explains that the…
Corporate Tax Policy Needs to Change
By Sam Pizzigati How rich have America’s super rich become? The annual compensation of Steve Schwarzman, the chief exec of the private-equity colossus Blackstone Inc., offers up one telling yardstick. In 2023, we learned earlier…