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Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
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Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
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