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Smoke above a wildfire

This Holiday Season, You Can Find Ways to Talk to Your Family About the Climate Crisis This Holiday Season, You Can Find Ways to Talk to Your Family About the Climate Crisis

Once you ask people about the ways they see the climate changing around them, many want to engage.

Nov 23, 2022 / Madeline Ostrander

Staughton Lynd, 1966

Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below

The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world.

Nov 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Marcus Rediker

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution

The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the University of California, and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution

On this week's episode of Start Making Sense, UCLA law professor Ahilan Arulanantham and writer Eliza Moreno join the show. 

Nov 23, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

US basketball player Brittney Griner in a Russian prison

Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home Brittney Griner’s Jail Conditions Speak to the Urgency of Bringing Her Home

If the US doesn’t bring her back, the basketball star’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia’s “land of prisons” will likely be brutal.

Nov 23, 2022 / Dave Zirin

Youth protesters at COP27

In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts In a Historic Move, Frontline Communities Will Be Compensated for Climate Crisis Impacts

At the UN climate negotiations, delegates celebrated the decision to create a mechanism by which developed countries will compensate developing countries for the havoc wreaked upon...

Nov 23, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets supporters

Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Second Pink Wave Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Second Pink Wave

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Doug Bell and Jeremy Adelman survey the prospects for the left in Latin America.

Nov 23, 2022 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

Decolonize!

Decolonize! Decolonize!

Honor Native American communities year-round.

Nov 23, 2022 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me

Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me Getting Adopted Didn’t Save Me

Two years after I left foster care, my adoptive mother became physically and emotionally abusive. Now, I'm choosing kindness over guilt.

Nov 23, 2022 / StudentNation / George Romero

Counterprotesters rally in opposition to the Kentucky ballot initiative to add an anti-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky

The key was organizing, through which volunteers connected deeply, authentically, and vulnerably with voters who didn’t agree with them yet.

Nov 23, 2022 / Erin Heaney

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile is test-launched

US Arms Dealing Is Out of Control US Arms Dealing Is Out of Control

What will it take to rein in Washington’s arms-sales addiction?

Nov 23, 2022 / William D. Hartung

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