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Americans Should Reject All State-Sanctioned Murder, Live-Streamed or Not
Last year, the US was 1 of only 17 countries to record an official execution.

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Lessons from Atlanta’s Municipal Grocery Store Experiment

How public support and purchasing cooperatives brought new options to Atlanta’s food deserts — and what other cities can learn.

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$55 Billion in Stock Buyback Wealth for Google Oligarchs

A 1982 SEC rule change has turbocharged America’s extreme wealth concentration, adding $55 billion to the wealth piles of Larry Page and Sergey...

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Increasing Portland’s CEO Pay Surtax Would Boost Revenue and Encourage Narrower Pay Gaps

Sarah Anderson testified before the Portland, OR city council about a proposal to increase an existing tax on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay...

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The Plundering Oligarch You Haven’t Heard Of

Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences.

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Lessons from Atlanta’s Municipal Grocery Store Experiment

How public support and purchasing cooperatives brought new options to Atlanta’s food deserts — and what other cities can learn.

High Flyers 2026: The High Cost of Private Jet Excess

How taxpayers and commercial passengers subsidize luxury private jet travel.

Gilded Giving 2026: Philanthropy Under Oligarchy

How wealthy donors are choosing whether to hoard, fold, or fight.

Executive Excess 2026

CEOs of the 100 largest low-wage corporations enrich themselves while turning a blind eye to policies harming their workers.

A Perfect Storm: How Federal Policy Changes Are Increasing Economic Insecurity for America’s Families

Policy choices are pushing millions of people into increasingly precarious conditions.

SYMPOSIUM ROUNDUP: Forging a Democracy That Works for All

A visionary exercise for progressives in an age of American fascism from our third annual Wallace Symposium.

BLUEPRINT: Forging a Democracy that Works for All

Countering the power of billionaires, corporations, and the Pentagon

Alternate Route: New Pathways to Better Jobs in Alabama Through Public Transit

Alabama has one of the country’s largest workforce shortages. Public transit is key to closing it.

The True Cost of the Military in Hawaiʻi

A comprehensive analysis of the economic, environmental, strategic, and social impacts of the U.S. military presence in Hawaiʻi

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