How 15-Year-Old Travion Blount Got 6 Life Sentences for a Crime In Which No One Was Hurt

The Virginia judge issued one of the harshest sentences ever handed down to a juvenile in the U.S. for a non-homicide-related offense. What if Blount had been white and wealthy?

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Rethinking Economics: From the U.K., a Global Student Movement Takes Shape

The group is working on a manifesto that calls for a complete overhaul of curricula at U.K. economics departments, as students in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Germany, France and New Zealand follow suit with similar demands.

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From Austerity to Abundance: Why I Am Running for California Treasurer

The state cannot solve its budget problems by slashing services that have already been cut to the bone or raising sales taxes that hurt the poor far more than the rich.

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Our Legacy of Discrimination – And Why the Constitution Must Guarantee The Right to Vote

Many people are surprised to learn that the U.S. Constitution contains no affirmative right to vote. Yet voting seems to most people to be the most obvious, important vehicle they have.

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How Occupy the S.E.C. has Impacted the Volcker Rule, Fueling Insitutional Support

In terms of historical comparisons, Occupy the S.E.C. reminds me of various elements of populism that the United States experienced at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

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Now Is the Moment to Save Our Postal Commons

Because postal services, owned by the people, are part of the commons, the attack on public postal utilities amounts to an attack on the commons itself.

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Land Conflicts in Argentina: From Resistance to Systemic Transformation

Six corporations control 90 percent of soy production and its derivatives, making record profits - but the environmental costs of production are socialized.

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Could Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises Be Our Economic Solution?

The centuries-old idea of workers' self-directed enterprises has been revived, and the result is a new vision of an alternative to capitalism that could help to mobilize a new left.

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U.S. Appeals Court Deals Major Blow To Net Neutrality

Broadband providers aren't "common carriers," the court said, and that makes all the difference in a decision certain to shake up the fixed broadband and wireless industries.

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What U.S. Revolutionary Past Reveals About Richmond Battle For Eminent Domain

Mortgage relief schemes played an important role in our nation’s history as states passed laws to help debtors. Still, foreclosures became increasingly common, and a mini-revolution erupted when angry farmers organized themselves.

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