"Treating Protest As Terrorism': U.S. Plans Crackdown on Keystone XL Activists

Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock.

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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works

Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.

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To Stop the Next Financial Crisis, We Need Public Ownership of Banks—Now

When the next crisis hits, the public will once again be called upon to step in and bail out Wall Street. We need to start seriously preparing an alternative response: public banks.

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The New Socialists

Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018.

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California Mandates 100 Percent Clean Energy By 2045

In a major environmental milestone, Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday signed a law requiring California to obtain 100 percent of its electricity from non-polluting sources in under 30 years.

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Bernie Sanders Introduces ‘Stop BEZOS Act’ In the Senate

The “Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act” would establish a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at Amazon, Walmart and all companies with at least 500 employees.

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Can Cities Pave the Way Toward a Universal Basic Income?

As places like Stockton and Chicago begin to experiment with UBI pilot programs, the idea is finally moving from theory to practice.

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Labor Unions Turn to New Strategies In Effort To Shape Midterm Elections

If labor adapts to the changing economic and political realities that got Trump elected, it can play an outsized role helping reshape the body politic as economic insecurity increases for the majority.

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Win for Indigenous Communities As Canadian Court Kills Trans Mountain Pipeline

Canada's Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline, a project of Kinder Morgan, cannot move forward.

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The North Carolina Gerrymandering Chaos That Could Upend the Midterms, Explained

North Carolina might have to redraw its House maps mere weeks before the midterms.

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