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Capitalism

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City

What foraging can teach Americans about solving national food insecurity

September 27, 2023 • by Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Mattingly’s Swale came before the foraging boom, but it suggests that foraging may hold a permanent place in New York. Foraging is not just another fashionable affectation, but a path to addressing the deep-rooted issues embedded in our current food systems. Swale represents how our understanding of food access is ...

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City

Corporations

Right To Repair, Rising

The movement to let you fix your own stuff is winning

June 12, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

At the end of the day, people just want to be able to fix their stuff....

Corporations

How Minnesota Took on Hospital Monopolies and Won

HF 402 creates a “public interest standard” for mergers

May 31, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

Across the country, health care workers have seen both their pay and their working conditions head down a slope thanks to the increasing power of the large health systems that employ them....

How Minnesota Took on Hospital Monopolies and Won

Corporations

Taking on Ticketmaster

A California bill would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off

May 8, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

Pat Garofalo writes about a California bill that would eliminate a key tactic Ticketmaster uses to rip you off....

Capitalism

A World to Win

Talking with socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

May 1, 2023 • by Nancy Fraser and Claire Potter

Claire Potter sits down with New School for Social Research political theorist Nancy Fraser to discuss her latest book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022)....

Corporations

The Public Wants to Ban Secret Deals

New polling shows voters think secret corporate subsidy deals are shady and corrupt

April 24, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

NDAs were a key part of Amazon’s push for its subsidized HQ2, and have popped up in states all across the country....

Corporations

Throw Junk Fees in the Trash

States are following the Biden administration’s lead in going after unfair and deceptive fees

April 18, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

If corporations have power, it’s a safe bet they’re using it to extract junk fees. ...

Gender

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

An excerpt from Elena Shih’s probing book

April 18, 2023 • by Elena Shih

Commercial sex in Bangkok, broadcast through tourist networks, now links the city in many minds with human trafficking—following the global tendency to conflate all sex commerce with sex trafficking. ...

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

Corporations

Inside the Fight to Save Local Journalism

State and federal lawmakers are aiming at Big Tech’s ability to destroy local news

April 11, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

The decline in local news coverage is bad for communities for a whole host of reasons. ...

Inside the Fight to Save Local Journalism

Corporations

The High Cost of Cheap Corporate Utilities

Discounted energy is a backdoor subsidy

March 30, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

Make any utility discounts for “economic development” transparent and debatable before public bodies, if they have to be allowed at all...

The High Cost of Cheap Corporate Utilities

Corporations

Job Creation by Merger Is for Suckers

JetBlue’s possible acquisition of Spirit may lead to job losses

March 27, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

The history here...is clear: mergers kill jobs....

Corporations

Camden Got Answers—And They Revealed A Lot

So much money for big corporations, not many jobs for local residents

March 9, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

disclosure can be a powerful tool for uncovering exactly how flawed particular subsidy deals really are. We never would have known how few local residents these heavily subsidized corporations were hiring without a committed group of activists using the available legal tools to implement a new disclosure regime....