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Inequality
  • Inequality
    How the Pandemic Hit America's Homeless
    July 14, 2020
    | Rajan Menon

    As the coronavirus continues to rage, this country is ill-prepared to handle a surge in homelessness, let alone help those already homeless.

  • Letters From an American
    What is Going on with Russia?
    July 14, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Media coverage of Trump’s commutation of his associate Roger Stone’s prison sentence has pushed the Russia bounty story out of the headlines. Knowing Trump’s skill at distraction, it’s hard to believe this is a coincidence.

  • Inequality
    The One Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year
    July 10, 2020
    | David Sirota

    The problem here isn’t that we lack the knowledge to fix things — the problem is our political system.

  • Justice
    On "Taking a Knee"
    July 9, 2020

    In response to the breathtaking, turning-point events of the past several weeks, Archives for Research into Archetypal Symbolism has produced a special video exploring and amplifying the symbolism of "Taking a Knee."

  • Environment
    The Climate Emergency Won't Wait for the Press to Play Catch-Up
    July 7, 2020
    | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

    Only after the work of covering the disaster is done will news outlets perhaps take a moment to examine why all this is happening—why these disasters are occurring, again and again, all over the world, with increased frequency and ferocity.

  • Democracy & Government
    Court Reinstates Wisconsin Voting Restrictions in Victory for Republicans
    July 7, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    The ruling reinstates a Republican-backed law that allows local election officials to offer only two weeks of early voting before election day.

  • History
    Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
    July 2, 2020

    In 1852 Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society to give a speech commemorating the Fourth of July. On July 5, the crowds filling Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, did not get what they expected.

  • Inequality
    Making Sure 'Normal' Is Never the Same Again
    June 30, 2020
    | Claire Elise Thompson
    5 environmental justice leaders from across the country share their thoughts on how to address racial injustice, climate change and COVID-19.
  • Environment
    Just Like Covid-19, Racial Justice Is a Climate Story
    June 29, 2020
    | Mark Hertsgaard

    To Sunrise Movement cofounder Varshini Prakash and her fellow activists, the fight for a livable planet and the fight against racial injustice are the very same fight.

  • Environment
    I’m a Black Climate Expert. Racism Derails Our Efforts to Save the Planet.
    June 24, 2020
    | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
    Stopping climate change is hard enough, but racism only makes it harder.


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