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Le Guin Calls on Fantasy and Sci-Fi Writers to Envision Alternatives to Capitalism

Spark the imagination of readers.

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Eat & Drink

5 Medicinal Herbs You Can Grow in Your Backyard

These herbs aren’t just for cooking—here’s how you can use them to treat ailments from asthma to anxiety.

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Change

Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not the Few. Step 9: Make Polluters Pay Us

Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies – and then invest the revenue so that it benefits everyone.

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Change

Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not the Few. Step 8: Raise the Estate Tax on the Very Rich

Our democracy’s Founding Fathers did not want a privileged aristocracy. Yet that’s the direction we’re going in.

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Change

The Left’s Answer to ALEC: Say Hello to the State Innovation Exchange

Progressives needed an organization like ALEC. Now we have one. It’s called the State Innovation Exchange.

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Change

Teaching Old Buildings New Tricks

It’s alive!

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Change

Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not the Few. Step 7: Strengthen Unions and Preempt State “Right to Work” Laws

Don’t be fooled by the “right to work” name. It’s a back door destroying unions.

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Reflect

How is Softball Still a Thing?

Women don’t play soccer with a larger, softer ball. Women don’t have to shoot basketballs underhanded.

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Reflect

Awkward: Texas Wants Federal Disaster Relief

Texas representatives opposed disaster relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy—now they want federal disaster relief.

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Change

Making the Economy Work for the Many, Not the Few. Step 6: End Corporate Welfare Now

No more handouts to particular corporations and industries simply because they’re big enough and powerful enough to get them.