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Jake Johnson

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Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep

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Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile

With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.

How workers in the South are defying history

The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.

The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance

We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.

Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest Americans

"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."

How young climate activists built a mass movement to be reckoned with

The movement of the future has potential to further re-shape politics in ways most of us can’t even imagine.