Digital Divide

Georgia Knecht, 4, browses a bookshelf at Riverside, California, Main Library.

A Book Is a Book Is a Book—Except When It’s an e-Book A Book Is a Book Is a Book—Except When It’s an e-Book

But corporate mega-publishers want purchasing a book to be like renting a movie or streaming an album.

Aug 30, 2023 / Maria Bustillos

Laptop

America’s Digital Divide Is an Emergency America’s Digital Divide Is an Emergency

Denying high-speed Internet to all Americans puts marginalized groups at risk.

Jun 23, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started

Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started

And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America.

Aug 20, 2019 / John Nichols

EPB technicians

The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet The New Sewer Socialists Are Building an Equitable Internet

A blue-collar manufacturing town in southern Appalachia offers a roadmap for reclaiming the Internet’s utopian potential.

Nov 28, 2017 / Evan Malmgren

Chattanooga

Chattanooga Was a Typical Postindustrial City. Then It Began Offering Municipal Broadband. Chattanooga Was a Typical Postindustrial City. Then It Began Offering Municipal Broadband.

Chattanooga’s publicly owned Internet service has helped boost its economy and bridge the digital divide.

Jun 3, 2016 / P.E. Moskowitz

To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband

To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband To Help Connect the Two New Yorks, Bill de Blasio Should Build More Community Broadband

How high-speed Internet access is changing one Brooklyn neighborhood.

Jan 8, 2014 / Maya Wiley

Broadband Redlining Targets Rural America Broadband Redlining Targets Rural America

Will rural America become roadkill on the information superhighway?

May 14, 2007 / Feature / Steve Early

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