Cities

Should Anti-Abortion Activists Be Allowed to Harass Preschoolers?

Should Anti-Abortion Activists Be Allowed to Harass Preschoolers? Should Anti-Abortion Activists Be Allowed to Harass Preschoolers?

A charter school in DC has unwittingly been drawn into the controversy over Planned Parenthood.

Jan 22, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

The Poisoning of Flint

The Poisoning of Flint The Poisoning of Flint

Decades of catastrophic austerity policies and ruinous government fealty to corporate interests are jeopardizing the people of Michigan—and the rest of the country.  

Jan 19, 2016 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows

Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows

Details of how Flint’s water was contaminated, and of how pleas for help were neglected, are leading to calls for inquiries, arrest, resignation.

Jan 18, 2016 / John Nichols

Bill de Blasio

Broadband City: How New York Is Bridging Its Digital Divide Broadband City: How New York Is Bridging Its Digital Divide

After two years in office, the de Blasio administration has made bold moves to make the Internet accessible for all New Yorkers.

Jan 8, 2016 / Cities Rising / Maya Wiley

Postal Banking Worked—Let’s Bring It Back

Postal Banking Worked—Let’s Bring It Back Postal Banking Worked—Let’s Bring It Back

Regulated, federally subsidized banks serve the wealthy and the middle class. A Wild West hodgepodge of unregulated lenders serves everybody else.

Jan 7, 2016 / Mehrsa Baradaran

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Rick Perlstein on the Chicago mayor; Adam Gopnik and Amy Wilentz on Charlie Hebdo; and Rebecca Solnit on climate change in the Himalayas.

Jan 7, 2016 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Blasio arrives to join a gathering in response to attacks in Paris, at Washington Square Park in the Manhattan borough of New York

Bill de Blasio Is New York’s Most Progressive Mayor in Decades—Is That Enough? Bill de Blasio Is New York’s Most Progressive Mayor in Decades—Is That Enough?

As opposition mounts, the solution to de Blasio’s problems might lie in even bigger, bolder interventions.

Jan 6, 2016 / Cities Rising / Jarrett Murphy

Brazil MTST march

A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement A Conversation With Guilherme Boulos, Leader of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement

“Brazil is now a machine that creates homelessness.”

Jan 5, 2016 / Andy Robinson

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement

A personal meditation for 2016.

Jan 4, 2016 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?

How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death? How Can No One Be to Blame for Tamir Rice’s Death?

The Cleveland police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice will face no state criminal charges.

Dec 29, 2015 / Dani McClain

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