Economic Justice

Stored for Safe-Keeping, Never To Be Seen Again

This story was originally published by ProPublica.When Stephenie came upon workers in Portland, Oregon, who had bagged up all of her belongings in a homeless encampment sweep, she desperately...

The Question Looming Over COP29: Who’s Rich Enough To Pay for Climate Change?

The world’s governments have come to the United Nations’ climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, deadlocked on one ugly...

Study: End World Bank Support for Factory Farming

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report,...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant...

The Billion-Dollar Belly Flop

Kamala Harris’s devastating loss to Donald Trump last week was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and...

Neoliberals Are Wrong About Bidenomics

It is by now a familiar story. With the status quo in tatters following the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, a newly elected...

Presidential Debates Love To Avoid the Topic of Taxing the Rich

The first televised U.S. presidential debate came way back in 1960. Few of us who happened to watch that debate remember much about it....

The Cruel but Not Unusual Treatment of the Unhoused

In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties...

The Effect Back-to-Back Storms Had on Lake Charles

It has been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the fiercest storm...

Can the U.S. Census Keep Up With Climate Displacement?

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate...

NYC Continues To Add to Its Little-Known Mass Grave Site

The New York City Human Resources Administration has increased the number of bodies in each of the city’s mass graves on Hart Island in...