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On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
The importance of place and the draw of home is at odds with the future we have created for our planet.
Jane Braxton Little
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June 5, 2023
The Case Against Homeownership
Instead of perpetuating the Ponzi scheme of private property for some, we should be demanding economic security for all.
Jane Chung
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May 18, 2023
Philadelphia’s Next Mayor Will Almost Certainly Be a Black Woman
Yet, for all her claims to history, primary winner Cherelle Parker was the status quo candidate in a city where the status quo is badly broken.
Gene Seymour
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May 17, 2023
Can America Go Car-Free? Gen Z Hopes So.
Young people today are already driving less, but breaking the country’s car-dependency will require unprecedented investment in infrastructure and public transit.
Hannah Reynolds
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May 16, 2023
Turkish Election Aftershock: Despite Unity on the Left, the Opposition Falls Short
Defying predictions of his political demise, the country’s authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came first on Sunday and is now favored to win reelection in the runoff on May 28.
Kaya Genç
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April 26, 2023
Pick ’Em: Making Sense of the Free-for-All Primary for Mayor of Philadelphia
For a job the current incumbent seems eager to leave, the contest has drawn a remarkably diverse field of candidates—and no obvious front-runner.
Gene Seymour
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April 21, 2023
How Reading “The Economist” Helped Me to Stop Worrying About White Supremacy
A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!
Sarah Taber
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April 13, 2023
Chicago’s Rich Organizing Tradition Paid Off, Delivering Victory for Brandon Johnson
The Windy City’s first movement mayor faces a formidable array of challenges, testing him and the coalition that brought him into office.
Barbara Ransby
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April 12, 2023
A Wave of Evictions Is Devastating California’s Farmworkers
As growers bring in more H-2A workers, affordable housing for local farmworkers has become sparse in the region’s labor camps.
David Bacon
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April 7, 2023
Stop Gatekeeping Architecture
We all inhabit, and therefore participate in, the built environment.
Kate Wagner