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Food Museums Uncover the Culture, Science, and History Behind the Food at the End of Your Fork
Institutions like New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink are making food literacy fun. The Museum of Food and Drink in 2018 -- Ɱ, CC...

The Left Chapter
Jun 265 min read


The Plebeian Council as an Example for Modern Citizen Empowerment
The rise and erosion of the plebeian council offers perspectives on the stagnant U.S. civil rights movement. Gaius Gracchus, tribune of...

The Left Chapter
Jun 2610 min read


Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
For TONYC, theater isn’t just for entertainment; it’s a powerful tool for social change. Screenshot from a performance, 2024 By Caitlin...

The Left Chapter
Jun 213 min read


Ten Years After Ni Una Menos: Feminism, Resistance, and the Future
Ni Una Menos rally in Argentina in 2017 - TitiNicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Maisa Bascuas The Cry That Fuelled the...

The Left Chapter
Jun 136 min read


Trump and Republicans Want US Taxpayers to Fund Their Pet Project: Private Schools
A proposal for a nationwide federally supported school voucher program is just another of President Trump’s schemes to give advantages to...

The Left Chapter
Jun 67 min read


How to Win the Highest Minimum Wage in the USA
It took more than two years of hard work and relentless campaigning for LA’s tourism workers to win $30 an hour. Here’s how they did it....

The Left Chapter
Jun 25 min read


Why the US Right Really Hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism....

The Left Chapter
May 145 min read


The 18th Brumaire of Javier Milei
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon ‘History repeats itself:...

The Left Chapter
May 67 min read


Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
Truly independent cinema is alive and well in North America. Here’s why it matters. Screenshot image via the CUFF website By Damon Orion...

The Left Chapter
May 35 min read


To Stop Coups in South Korea, Expand Democracy
Mass protest calling for the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, December 2024 -- image via X By Dae-Han Song On 4 April, 122 days after...

The Left Chapter
Apr 295 min read


As History Erasure Intensifies, Independent Internet Archives Are Helping Fortify the ‘Digital Preservation Infrastructure’
These online resources hold crucial information on history, social issues, and activism. Public domain image By Damon Orion Despite...

The Left Chapter
Apr 256 min read


The People’s Network for Land and Liberation Is Building Alternatives to the Current ‘War-and-Empire Global Economy’
This consortium of community-based organizations is working toward decolonization and economic democracy. People's Network for Land and...

The Left Chapter
Apr 226 min read


Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History
By Gary M. Feinman Without archaeology, there is no way to truly examine economic inequality, its causes, and its consequences over very...

The Left Chapter
Apr 194 min read


First, They Came for the Venezuelans
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized...

The Left Chapter
Mar 255 min read


What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...
Michael Laxer
Mar 167 min read


Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. Participatory budget...
Michael Laxer
Mar 134 min read


A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-immigration
Deportation Flight to unknown "country of origin" from the United States by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on January 23,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 277 min read


‘Only the People Can Save the People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant...
Michael Laxer
Feb 215 min read


This Clinic in Chicago Offers Free Legal Aid to Solidarity Economy Groups
The Community Enterprise and Solidarity Clinic is part of a growing mutual aid movement in Chicago, Illinois. The University of Illinois...
Michael Laxer
Feb 55 min read


Why We Evolved to Dream at Night and What Dreams Mean
We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them? By Leslie Alan Horvitz No one knows why we dream. It stands to reason that dreams...
Michael Laxer
Jan 3124 min read
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