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Articles tagged with democracy
When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.
New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.
Public interest journalism may not be salvageable. But more than being saved, it needs to be radically rethought.
Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.
Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise. Today it retains popular support by selectively repressing and responding to social demands.
