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To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class. His writings remain essential.
The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.
Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor reject backroom dealmaking. Rank-and-file workers are going even further.
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
The history of debates about educational outcomes holds important lessons.
The aim is a classless society, not equal outcomes.
It doesn't entail an embrace of the status quo.
Final response: we need a more substantive and generous understanding of the egalitarian ideal.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
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.
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