Inequality

Democracy Spring

Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week Hundreds of People Are Getting Arrested For Democracy This Week

The Democracy Spring protests in DC are building the power needed to break our politics free of its corporate choke-hold.

Apr 14, 2016 / John Cavanagh

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.

Apr 14, 2016 / Feature / James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III

There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 6: Trickery, Fraud, and Deception in Brooklyn

There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 6: Trickery, Fraud, and Deception in Brooklyn There Goes the Neighborhood, Episode 6: Trickery, Fraud, and Deception in Brooklyn

In the wild world of Brooklyn real estate, developers looking to cash in don’t always play by the rules.

Apr 13, 2016 / Podcast / There Goes the Neighborhood and Kai Wright

Baltimore Row Houses

Can Neighborhoods Be Revitalized Without Gentrifying Them? Can Neighborhoods Be Revitalized Without Gentrifying Them?

Baltimore’s new housing plan could provide a form of neighborhood uplift that benefits communities, not developers.

Apr 11, 2016 / Michelle Chen

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview. The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s Her Corporate Worldview.

Clinton is uniquely unsuited to the epic task of confronting the fossil-fuel companies that profit from climate change.

Apr 6, 2016 / Naomi Klein

Fight for 15 protesters in Los Angeles

We Are Winning the Fight for $15 We Are Winning the Fight for $15

What started with 200 workers striking in New York has ballooned into a national movement wielding real political power.

Apr 6, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Carli Lloyd celebrates during World Cup

US Women’s Soccer Is More Popular Than Men’s, but the Players Are Still Paid Less US Women’s Soccer Is More Popular Than Men’s, but the Players Are Still Paid Less

The men “get paid more to just show up than we get paid to win major championships.”

Apr 5, 2016 / Dave Zirin

Protesters in Iceland after Panama Papers leak

The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich The Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich

This massive leak will boost the global movement to recapture trillions of the hidden wealth of nations.

Apr 5, 2016 / Chuck Collins

Fight for 15 protest

How a $15 Minimum Wage Went From ‘Extreme’ to Enacted How a $15 Minimum Wage Went From ‘Extreme’ to Enacted

Across the country, activists and low-wage workers are showing that the changes we need will come if people organize and force them.

Apr 5, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Uber app being used in front of a taxicab.

Gig Economy Jobs Don’t Have to Be Awful Gig Economy Jobs Don’t Have to Be Awful

The on-demand economy tends to be great for the consumer and bad for the worker—but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Apr 4, 2016 / Michelle Chen

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