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Incisive reporting on elections, primaries, voting rights and the party process.

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Environmental journalism that integrates the path for sustainable lifestyles and an ethical diet.

Local Peace Economy

Inspiring stories of people’s efforts to reshape and reinvest in our local economy.

Our Schools

Going to the front lines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system.

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Going beyond headlines, labels and caricatures to find the social, political, spiritual common ground upon which we can build a shared politics.

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Making the case for the general welfare of American society and the world at large.

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Lifting the voices of journalists working from the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to make a world free of suffering.

Drug Reporter

Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.

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Vijay Prashad Archives

Elon Musk Is Acting Like a Neo-Conquistador for South America’s Lithium

Remembering the Heroism of Activist Berta Cáceres Four Years After Her Assassination: An Interview With Her Daughter

Witnessing the Hell That a Migrant Can Face

Standing Up for Left Literature—In India, It Can Cost You Your Life

Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup

Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders

The War in Libya Will Never End

What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence

Not an Inch: Indian Students Stand Against the Far-Right

Is This the End of U.S. Interference in West Asia?

India’s Democracy Is Facing an Existential Threat

The People of India Are Taking It to the Streets to Challenge Modi’s Bigoted and Dishonest Government

India’s Government Is Going to War Against Its Own People

Why the Afghanistan Papers Are an Eerie Reminder of Vietnam

Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer

How to Commit War Crimes—and Get Away With It

The Coup in Bolivia Has Everything to Do With the Screen You’re Using to Read This

After Evo, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia

Lula Is Free: Can Socialism Be Restored?

How U.S. Sanctions on Iran Are Killing Innocent People

South America Cries Out: Neoliberalism—Never Again!

How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics

The IMF Convenes in Washington, Deaf to the Suffering It Causes Across the Planet

What to Expect from Turkey’s Coming Invasion of Syria

Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice