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U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) participates in a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House Democrats joined Poor People’s Campaign at the news conference to call for a congressional resolution "to address poverty and low wages." (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ending Poverty in the Richest Country on Earth

Let's be clear: poverty exists because we allow it to exist.

Barbara Lee ·

Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White Republicans Are Less Supportive of Black Lives Matter After Consuming Right-Wing Media

The attacks on BLM were not limited to Carlson; they went wall-to-wall at Fox.

Julie Hollar ·

Palestinians walk past a mural of George Floyd, a black American who died after being restrained by police officers, in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Connection Between Black Lives Matter and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement

On the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, it is hard not to draw comparisons between Black Lives Matter and growing international solidarity with the Palestinians.

Sharmeen Ziauddin ·

The US ranks lower than many socially inclusive economies on every key dimension of life, with a lower life expectancy, higher poverty rate, no guaranteed paid sick leave, longer working hours per year, and, yes, less happiness. (Photo: Getty/ Stock Photo/Darrin Willoughby / EyeEm)

A Third Reconstruction Is Pragmatically Achievable and Could End American Poverty

The Third Reconstruction should aim to end—once and for all—the oligarchy of rich Whites by creating an America in which all are equal at the voting booth, the school, the clinic and the workplace.

Jeffrey D. Sachs ·

This June 1921 photo shows the aftermath of the the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Photo: Library of Congress/Getty)

One Hundred Years Later, the Mark of History Still Scars Tulsa Today

No one has been held responsible for the Tulsa massacre that left hundreds of Black people dead and their prosperous community in ruins.

Jesse Jackson ·

Palestinian first responders search through the rubble of a family's home in Beit Lahia, Gaza following Israeli bombing on May 13, 2021. The body of a child—one of at least 27 killed by Israeli bombing—was recovered from the home's ruins. (Photo: Mustafa Hassona/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

Israel's Assault on Gaza by Bomb, Then Slow Strangulation

The risk to Gaza now is the risk of our disengagement before we have brought down the walls. That is the task; nothing less. This time, Gaza must go free.

Marilyn Garson ·

Chemical plants, fossil fuel refineries, and factories line the Mississippi River in the area of Louisiana known as "Cancer Alley." (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Advocates Applaud State AGs' Call for Review of Proposed 'Cancer Alley' Petrochemical Plant

"I believe that if there's an honest assessment of the environmental racism behind this project's approval then it will never be permitted," said one leading local activist. "We must stop Formosa Plastics."

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

As we connect the dots between racism, capitalism, and the climate crisis, it is crucial that we understand our different positions in the social formation we live in. (Photo: Chris-Yakimov-via-Flickr)

Racism, Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis

As we tried to connect the dots between the murder of George Floyd and our work to end the burning of fossil fuels, the connecting thread, without our naming it explicitly, was clearly capitalism.

Cynthia Kaufman ·

Relatives of Ronald Greene, an unarmed Black man who died following his brutal arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers in May 2019, demand justice during an August 28, 2020 demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

'Tortured to Death': Video Showing Fatal Louisiana Arrest of Unarmed Black Man Sparks Outrage

A doctor who examined Ronald Greene's body after the deadly May 2019 encounter said the Louisiana State Police claim that he died in a car crash "doesn't add up." 

Brett Wilkins, staff writer ·

Israeli forces intervene in Palestinian demonstrators with gas bomb using drone during a protest against Israeli forces' attacks over East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2021, in Ramallah, West Bank. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"Roof Knocking" in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone

The illusion that war can be made safer and the control of repressed people made kinder through the use of drones only makes war and repression more likely and spawns a cycle of violence that is even more intractable.

Brian Terrell ·