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What Might the World Look Like in 2025? What Might the World Look Like in 2025?

A dispatch from the future.

Feb 15, 2022 / John Feffer

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America’s Mayors Should Take Marion Barry as a Model. Seriously. America’s Mayors Should Take Marion Barry as a Model. Seriously.

The former D.C. mayor’s pioneering efforts to provide jobs, affordable housing, and food security deserve to be remembered long after the jokes about his drug use have grown stale.

Feb 14, 2022 / Christina M. Greer

Nina Turner Is Still Mad As Hell, and Running for Congress (Again)

Nina Turner Is Still Mad As Hell, and Running for Congress (Again) Nina Turner Is Still Mad As Hell, and Running for Congress (Again)

If you thought the former Ohio state senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate was going to quietly fade into the background after her primary loss last year, think again.

Feb 11, 2022 / A. Bryan Johnson

Homeless Struggle To Maintain New Encampment In Sacramento

California Needs to Get Serious About Homelessness California Needs to Get Serious About Homelessness

The state has failed to provide housing to the formerly incarcerated and other vulnerable people.

Feb 11, 2022 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky

Congressional Staffers Are Organizing a Much-Needed Union

Congressional Staffers Are Organizing a Much-Needed Union Congressional Staffers Are Organizing a Much-Needed Union

Members of Congress need to activate key provisions of the Congressional Accountability Act for the organizing effort to move forward. 

Feb 11, 2022 / John Nichols

Pfizer’s Revenue Doubles: “It’s Nothing Short of Pandemic Profiteering”

Pfizer’s Revenue Doubles: “It’s Nothing Short of Pandemic Profiteering” Pfizer’s Revenue Doubles: “It’s Nothing Short of Pandemic Profiteering”

Calls are growing for the pharmaceutical giant to share its vaccine recipes that could save the most vulnerable people in the world.

Feb 10, 2022 / John Nichols

Three stacks of 100 dollar bills.

How the “American Dream” Became Un-American How the “American Dream” Became Un-American

When plutocrats defend it, and democrats bewail its passing, it’s time to recall the original meaning of the phrase.

Feb 10, 2022 / Maria Bustillos

“Ron Johnson Doesn’t Give a Sh*t About Wisconsin Workers”

“Ron Johnson Doesn’t Give a Sh*t About Wisconsin Workers” “Ron Johnson Doesn’t Give a Sh*t About Wisconsin Workers”

The Republican senator hates unions so much that he has said he won’t fight to win key manufacturing jobs for his own state. Democrats think that should cost him his seat.

Feb 9, 2022 / John Nichols

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Journalist Mary Heaton Vorse Spent Decades on the Front Lines of Labor Journalist Mary Heaton Vorse Spent Decades on the Front Lines of Labor

The Progressive Era labor journalist, feminist, and war correspondent devoted her long and uncompromising career to giving poor and working people a voice.

Feb 8, 2022 / Kim Kelly

It’s Time for Black Experts to Be Heard

It’s Time for Black Experts to Be Heard It’s Time for Black Experts to Be Heard

Over a decade after the Great Recession, key institutions are still not listening to warnings from Black scholars on a range of issues. The time for excuses is over.

Feb 7, 2022 / Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

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