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Meet Alvaro Enciso, the artist placing crosses in Sonoran desert to memorialize migrant deaths

More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to...
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‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama Sawant

The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”

Emergency response

Police have fatally shot more than 1,200 people with mental illnesses since 2015, according to the database.

The quality (or inequality) of life

Poverty in history’s richest nation.

Why Media Should Be Skeptical Of Koch Brothers’ New Anti-Poverty Group

Media should know that: previous Koch-backed poverty and education efforts have been coupled with ideological proselytizing, Stand Together's executive director is a Koch veteran and former Republican congressional candidate who repeatedly fearmongered about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Russian propaganda? The new era of mainstream conspiracy theory

While it is true that Russia, China and other rival countries engage in espionage and propaganda, their efforts to change American minds pale in comparison to the stenography of the US and other Western media.

Emilio Gutierrez Soto and the fight to protect journalists

Democracy depends on a vigorous free press, and it is up to all of us to demand it, and to defend it.

Funding infrastructure: Why China is running circles around America

“If we don’t get our act together very soon, we should all be brushing up on our Mandarin.”

How rising inequality is stalling economies by crippling demand

A new agenda is needed. We have to recognize that economic growth inevitably involves economic transformation, based on innovation and technological change.

Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 3

Labor Day: When workers are recognized as human, $30 trillion to the richest white Americans, Los Angeles educators vote to strike, and more.