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The Upside of Debt: How a National Crisis Is Fueling a Movement

Three leading organizers have a conversation about how America’s debt problem has transformed the movements they work with.

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As Experts Push for ‘Killer Robot’ Ban, UK and US Stand in the Way

“If there is not a pre-emptive ban on the high-level autonomous weapons then once the genie is out of the bottle it will be extremely difficult to get it back in.”

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Hundreds of Artists Slam Anti-Terror Law for Its ‘Direct Attack on Creative Arts, Free Expression’

Signatories inlcuding Margaret Atwood write that C-51 ‘gives the government carte blanche to suppress any voice they don’t like.’

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Even The Wall Street Journal Is Asking How to Correct Capitalism

The question of how the ownership of capital should be structured in a democratic society was raised by none other than Margaret Thatcher’s authorized biographer.

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Orthodox, Progressive, Invisible

There’s a price for treating religious groups as homogenous political blocs.

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Terry Tempest Williams: “Survival Becomes a Spiritual Practice”

The author and activist talks about millennials, climate change, and how she can’t imagine being alive at “a more thrilling, challenging time.”

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A New New Deal from the Roosevelt Institute

A reform agenda based on an incisive analysis of how we got here. Call it a new, New Deal.

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Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration

The resolution endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle.

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Obama Speaks Out After 10 Killed in Oregon in Year’s 294th Mass Shooting

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine.”

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Demanding Medicare-for-All, Medical Students Rise Up Nationwide

“Very early in our medical careers… we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system.”