Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Capitalism's Conclusion, Part II: Robber Barons Musk and Bezos Bring Back the Gilded Age
Just as the case was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the best panacea to corporate greed run amok is for workers to organize and form unions.
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Green New Deal XXI: The Rich Are Killing Our Planet. Make Super-Wealth History
We need to reverse policies that make the super-rich even richer, and create a narrative to challenge their wealth and devastating power, which are inextricably linked.
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Capitalism's Conclusion, Part I: What the Ohio Train Derailment Exposed
The Norfolk Southern derailment of trains carrying carcinogenic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, revealed what happens when the philosophy of putting profit above public health infects not just corporate boards, but the decision-making processes of government officials and regulators.
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The National Debt Doesn't Matter, and It Can Go Unpaid Forever
Americans’ finances could be personally affected if elected officials put our earned benefits like Social Security on the chopping block, all just to undertake a simple accounting maneuver.
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Who's to Blame for the New GOP House Majority, Part III: The Supreme Court
SCOTUS played a role in cementing Republican control of the House of Representatives through at least January of 2025. The decision in Moore v. Harper could extend the damage.
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Green New Deal XVIII: The Future Is Degrowth
A compelling new book argues why reaching a universally just and ecologically viable future requires us to shift into degrowth. Crucially, too, it signposts how to get there.
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The U.S. Power Elite Requires Student Debt to Sustain Itself
The student debt system serves the dual purpose of making higher education available only for those who come from wealthy families or those willing to take on a lifetime of debt, along with crushing younger generations’ will to rebel.
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Green New Deal XVII: Climate Litigation Is One Track To a Just Green Future
Worldwide climate litigation is a surging movement taking high polluting corporations, complicit nation-states or other climate criminals to court—and increasingly winning.
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GREEN NEW DEAL XVI: Undoing Neoliberalism's Spell and Reclaiming Common Sense
This is the sixteenth installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises.
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Reckoning with Britain’s Cost-of-Living Crisis: Causes and Solutions
Having endured years of austerity, real-wage cuts, a crippling pandemic, and now soaring costs to energy prices and other living essentials, financially struggling families require immediate state support to help get through the cost-of-living crisis.
