Workers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger
A federal judge is deciding whether or not to approve the biggest grocery corporate merger in U.S. history. The Kroger and Albertsons chains say they want to merge in order to better compete with...
View ArticleCan the Next President Solve the Housing Crisis?
Access to housing has become a major election issue this year. Home prices are up a whopping 60% over the past decade, even after accounting for inflation. Additionally, millions of renters spend...
View ArticleMeet the Librarian Battling Book Bans
Conservative groups around the country have been increasingly bold in banning books that they do not like within libraries and schools. Often those pushing book bans claim they are protecting children...
View ArticleYES! Magazine Explores “The Truth Above All Else”
The Fall 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has been hitting newsstands and landing in mailboxes around the country. It is the final pre-election issue before this November’s presidential race, aptly themed...
View ArticleProgress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers a vision of health care that decimates federal government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid through privatization and defunding. As part of YES!...
View ArticleDoes a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.
In 2008, Ecuador became the first nation in the world to vote on a new constitution that centers the rights of nature and of natural systems to “exist, flourish, and evolve.” That document has helped...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Immigration
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance admitted on national television that he spread false rumors about Haitian immigrants consuming people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. In an interview on...
View ArticleProgress 2025: A Vision for Economic Justice
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers an extremist vision for what a future conservative presidential administration should do in office. On the economy in particular, Project 2025 promotes...
View ArticleTrump’s Fake Electors Eye 2024 Election Theft
Donald Trump and his campaign have promised that if he loses the presidential race this November, it means the election was stolen. It is as strong a hint as he can make that he intends to steal the...
View ArticleA Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
Former president Donald Trump recently promised women voters that if he is reelected, they won’t “be thinking about abortion” because they “will be protected.” He added, “I will be your protector.”...
View ArticleProgress 2025: Protecting Voting Rights and Democracy
For years, Donald Trump and the GOP have made wild, unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud as cover for stripping people of their voting rights and engaging in voter intimidation. From...
View ArticleEnding “Death by Incarceration”
In early October, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments in an important case that could have national implications. The case seeks to end mandatory sentences of life in prison without...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision of Self-Determination
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, takes a colonialist position on U.S. influence at home and abroad. Its authors argue that too much public land is not being used...
View ArticleAn Abolitionist Response to Project 2025
Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that...
View ArticleHere’s How to Respond to Crime, Not React to It
For years, the state of California has struggled with overcrowded jails and prisons. From the three-strikes law to life sentences without parole, California is “one of the epicenters of mass...
View ArticleDr. Ibram X Kendi’s Progress 2025 Vision for Education
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 takes aim at the United States educational system by targeting public education and students of color, LGBTQ students, and low-income students. The project’s...
View ArticleA Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice
As communities in the United States Southeast reel from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and as Florida braces for the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton, the impacts of climate change are...
View ArticleMutual Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene has wrought untold devastation across several Southeastern states, and is the deadliest to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. So far more than 200 people are...
View ArticleThe Contentious Role of Third-Party Candidates
Just weeks before the United States presidential election on Nov. 5, 2024, all eyes are on a handful of swing states where the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remains tight. In those...
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