Today's capital punishment and racial injustice are 'direct descendants of lynching.'

The moral of this story is that a caring America is entirely within reach.

Companies like Uber, TaskRabbit and Amazon's Mechanical Turk aim to use people more efficiently. Instead we should focus on allocating work and its gains more decently.

The signs of anthropogenic climate disruption are all around us, evident to anyone willing to see them.

The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock.

Advocates argue that to continue progress, civil legal aid must be deployed more broadly in future efforts to combat poverty.

Continuing to punish people after they have served time, as some states do, can be counterproductive to building safe and healthy communities.

Local prosecutors end up being responsible for most of the exonerations.

As we remember Howard Zinn five years after his passing, let’s count him among the many social justice heroes and teachers who offer proof that people’s efforts make a difference — that ordinary people can change the world.

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