One Foot in Front of the Other
The sad truth is that we haven’t had the same sort of freedom to wander the streets of the city that the flâneur has had.
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Greece: Renewed State Attacks on Squats, Renewed Movement Defiance
In Athens alone, an estimated four thousand refugees live in squatted, self-organized structures.
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Race and Class, Intertwined
To fully understand the racial wealth gap and wealth inequality in general in the United States, we’ve got to understand how wealth was created.
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Italian Lessons
The demoralization following the collapse in the nineties of the Communist party still shapes all aspects of Italian political life.
On the Road with a Fed-up Trucker
“It’s a rebellion, but that’s for the time being. We’ve been promised a crackdown in April, and those aren’t empty threats.”
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The Robots Are Coming and We Are Not Ready
If corporations that have no concern about people or the planet are allowed to take this to its lowest common denominator, nobody will survive on this planet except for the über-wealthy and the robots.
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The Kids Are Alright
“I’m glad so many people showed up to the rally. People realize that corruption is an evil, that something has to change. I hope the teenagers who went to the rally will keep involved in civic activism.”
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Politics and Propaganda in Lebanon and Syria
Revolutionary processes are long term, with ups and downs. It’s not the end of this history. We should have hope even in these catastrophic times, and it’s very far from being the end.
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Frauducation and the New Economy
Most people pay for higher education by taking on debt. That means the individual is basically financing—through the publicly-supported federal student aid process—the training that employers will not provide. Workers are feeling that, and they are angry.
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“Go Home!”
“Injustice must be resisted.” A day in the life of refugees in the heart of Fortress Europe