The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Trump's EPA Consistently Benefits Corporate Profits Over Consumer Health
New EPA guidelines released earlier this year not only harm the planet but introduce many harmful substances into the environment.
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"Fire in Us Is Still Burning": Hong Kong Democracy Leaders Go on Trial Over the 2014 Occupy Protests
Three of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists and six others went on trial Monday for spearheading the tumultuous “Occupy Central” demonstrations in 2014.
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Brexit Chaos Means Likely No End To Britain's Punishing Austerity Cuts
The number of children living in poverty across the U.K. has surged by 100,000 over the past year – a perilous trend that is only likely to worsen with Brexit, despite the prime minister's promises.
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Extinction Rebellion: Thousands of Climate Protesters Block London Bridges, Dozens Arrested
"No damage that we incur can compare to the criminal inaction of the U.K. government in the face of climate breakdown."
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The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class?
Unlike the proletariat, which sought labor security, the progressives among the precariat want a future based on existential security, with a high priority placed on ecology and the commons.
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Nathan Schneider's "Everything For Everyone" Brings Cooperative Revolution to Life
The most striking secret of emergent radical economic structures like worker ownership is that they aren’t radical at all, a subject Nathan Schneider's new ranging book explores.
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G20 Nations Still Led by Fossil Fuel Industry, Climate Report Finds
Ongoing coal, oil and gas subsidies risk raising global temperatures to 3.2°C, well beyond the agreed Paris goal.
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It May Not Be A Wave, But A Blue Tide Is Rising In the Deep South
Future elections in the closely watched states of Florida, Georgia and Texas could be within grasp of Democrats as suffrage expands across the region.
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Want to Save the Climate? Break Up the Big Banks
Despite regularly claiming new commitments to "green finance," the big banks continue to funnel billions of dollars into the fossil fuel industry every year.
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The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Is Getting Much Worse In America
34 million American adults, or 1 in 7, are among the world's poorest 10%. How is that possible? In a word, debt.