To honor the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, we must continue the work it started.
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As the mainstream media has consolidated behind the BJP, independent journalism in India has become a dangerous activity. And no group is more vulnerable than Muslim reporters.
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Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
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MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
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We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
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California’s progressive image can be misleading. But it’s also home to activists fighting to change the state for the better.
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The idea that more degrees, credentials, and skills will raise the bottom of the economic floor has become an article of national faith. But educational systems can just as easily reproduce inequality as mitigate it.
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Under Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party waged a right-wing culture war and changed the terms of Japanese politics. The opposition will need to learn from his success to coalesce around a popular alternative.
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We must recognize and compensate for the intrinsic political weaknesses of taxation—and specifically progressive taxation—through the alternative fiscal strategy of economic democracy.
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Rather than bypassing the problem of power by putting our faith in MMT’s printing press, we need a strategy to rebuild the tax state and move toward economic democracy.
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A wildly popular documentary shows the depth of coronavirus denialism in France—and its relationship to right-wing movements worldwide.
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