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Immigrants Didn’t Take Your Health Care. ICE Did.
Millions of lawfully present immigrants are set to lose health care under the GOP’s changes. Millions more U.S. citizens will join them.

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Three Ways Movements Are Building Solidarity to Resist ICE

The beacon of hope in the midst of this nightmare is the increase in movement organizing to protect immigrant communities from the administration’s...

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The Supreme Court’s Midterm Chaos Is Voter Suppression

A functioning democracy requires rules voters and states understand before ballots are cast, not legal ambiguity that keeps results tied up in legal...

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The Struggle Against Industrial Expansion in Cancer Alley

Communities in Louisiana are fighting, including against their own governments, to block new polluting projects.

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Corporations With Big Pay Disparities Have Been Silent as ICE Detains Their Workers

Corporate leaders are living on an alternate economic planet. That may explain their silence even as their own workers are targeted.

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Making Schools Safer with Restorative Justice 

Introduction In Riverside County, California, a School Resource Officer was alerted to a confrontation between two students a block from their school. When...

A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America’s Families

Policy choices are pushing millions of people into increasingly precarious conditions.

How Much Will Trump’s Mass Deportation Effort Cost Taxpayers?

Congress and federal agencies have already committed a total of $268.9 billion for immigration enforcement through 2029. 

SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for All

A visionary exercise for progressives in an age of American fascism from our third annual Wallace Symposium.

BLUEPRINT: Forging a Democracy that Works for All

Countering the power of billionaires, corporations, and the Pentagon

Alternate Route: New Pathways to Better Jobs in Alabama Through Public Transit

Alabama has one of the country’s largest workforce shortages. Public transit is key to closing it.

The True Cost of the Military in Hawaiʻi

A comprehensive analysis of the economic, environmental, strategic, and social impacts of the U.S. military presence in Hawaiʻi

The Dark Side of the Energy Transition: Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras

Multinational corporations exploited demand for green energy to shake down some of the most impoverished communities in the Americas.

Restoring the Land: The Movement to Address the Theft of Tribal Territory

The United States, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, also owes its fortune to a great crime—the theft of land...

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