5 Ways Voters Stood Up to Big Money, Despite Losses
From campaign finance reform to protecting small business, Tuesday's elections had a few big victories.
Democracy
Can Seattle Boot Big Money Out of Elections By Giving Everyone 鈥淒emocracy Vouchers鈥�?
Early results show Seattle passing the Honest Elections ballot initiative. Voters will receive four $25 鈥渄emocracy vouchers鈥� every election year, which they can donate to the campaign of their choice.
Meet the 1 Percenters Finding Solace in Wealth Redistribution
A growing cadre of the owning class is crafting a healthier relationship to the other 99 percent: 鈥淚t is not about individual therapy or even engaging in philanthropy or charity. It鈥檚 about collective action.鈥�
The Interest-Free Lending Circles That Help Friends and Families Do DIY Loans
Who needs banks when you have communities? And organizations like Mission Asset Fund have even figured out how to use the system to raise credit scores.
Do We Even Need International Borders? (and Other News to Chew On)
Opening borders can have unexpected benefits; studies show alarming links between air pollution and dementia; and Native Americans talk about illegal immigration.
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and the Revolution She Inspired in Us
大象传媒 has put together a tribute page to honor Grace Lee Boggs and the lives she touched while she was with us. Share your own thoughts with #RememberingGrace.
Saying Goodbye to Grace Lee Boggs
Rest well, dear friend. Millions of us have been enlivened and empowered by your wisdom and spirit.
A Techy Management Fad Gives Workers More Power鈥擴p to a Point
Holacracy aims to liberate workers from micromanagement by replacing bosses with code-like rules modeled on computer programming.
1.5 Million American Families Live on $2 a Day鈥擳hese Authors Spent Years Finding Out Why
For their new book, H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn J. Edin followed the lives of America鈥檚 poorest families to find out what they need to break out of poverty, and how to make it happen.
The Feds Raided This Gay Sex Website鈥擜nd Pushed Sex Worker Rights Into the Mainstream
After the seizure of Rentboy.com, many in the sex worker and LGBTQ movements are finding common ground where they were once divided.
Hero or Coward: Could Skipping My Student Loan Payments Start a Revolution?
A college professor is calling for a massive student-debt strike next year with only one necessity: that as many debtors as possible refuse to pay.
5 Steps to Turn Your Business Into a Worker-owned Co-op
Learn how to turn any business into a worker-owned cooperative with this checklist.
Will Government Make Good on Its Promise to Forgive Student Debt?
Up to a quarter of the nation鈥檚 workers have spent 10 years working in public service on a promise of student loan forgiveness.
What鈥檚 a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement
From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.
鈥淵ou Fly to the Edge of the Tar Sands, and … No Life鈥�: A Montana Professor on the Issue of Our Time
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he鈥檚 standing up to tar sands extraction.
Drugs, Sex, and Debt: It鈥檚 Time to Revamp 鈥淭he Talk鈥�
Let鈥檚 remove the shame from the conversation and help the next generation avoid the debilitating amounts of debt that keep us from buying houses or taking vacations.
6 Strategies to Make Powerful Social Change鈥擲tarting With 鈥淪tay Woke鈥�
Bree Newsome鈥檚 removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse reminds us that real change comes from people power.
How One San Francisco Neighborhood Became 鈥淚mmune鈥� to Gentrification
With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin鈥檚 housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.
Why We Did an Issue on Debt
Good debts? We know it sounds crazy. But there鈥檚 a quiet revolution brewing in how we move money around, and we want our readers to know about it.
Video: 10 Years After Katrina, Has New Orleans Recovered?
This new documentary looks at gentrification in New Orleans and its effects on the city's low-income communities.
I Learned More by Leading a Student-Debt Strike Than I Did at College
After graduating from Everest College with a bad education and no job prospects in sight, I refused to pay my student loans. Now I鈥檓 helping lead the first student-debt strike in America.
Pardon the Interruption, Bernie: Why Black Lives Matter Is in Politics to Stay
The criticism aimed at Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford has ranged from the deeply piercing to the explicitly racist. But what they did was necessary, a welcome harbinger of more direct disruption.
After 20 Years Reporting on Solutions, I鈥檓 Going on a Journey to Find Where Hope Lies Now
大象传媒 co-founder Sarah van Gelder sets out on a road trip to find the edge of change.
Infographic: The Real Reason You Have So Much Debt (It鈥檚 Not Crazy Spending)
$11.85 trillion in household debt has more to do with stagnant wages (and predatory banks) than shopping sprees.
This New Rule Will Bring Secretive Corporate Tax Breaks to Light
Every year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on tax breaks for private companies. Now, state and city governments will have to start reporting it as lost income.
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