Wednesday, July 16, 2025

It’s not enough to elect progressives: Movements must have a role in governing

Our work must be about building long-term, multiracial, people-powered movements around a shared agenda for racial justice and a people’s economy.

How collectives are empowering people to understand the tricky financial side of life

Removing the taboo around talking about money, two collectives are helping people work toward securing their financial well-being.

Support for families needs to be permanent

"The pandemic didn’t create the impossible conditions facing moms—it only exacerbated them."

Seven pointed questions for corporate media about their biases

Unfortunately, many Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere are unduly influenced by mainstream media.

A public bank for Los Angeles? City Council puts it to the voters

California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street, but from the Federal Reserve.
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Noam Chomsky on Pittsburgh attack: Revival of hate is encouraged by Trump’s rhetoric

The massacre has been described as the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.

This Thanksgiving, a look at the indigenous communities making the climate connection

Here are a handful of front-line organizations and efforts connecting climate change and indigenous communities.
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Extreme weather is exploding around the world. Why isn’t the media talking about climate...

We host a panel discussion on the media’s role in the climate change crisis, the fossil fuel industry and global warming-fueled extreme weather across the globe.

Media must stop asking youth activists to ‘save the world’

Why should it be the responsibility of teenagers to “save the world” in the first place?

Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children

A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.