Author Archive
Dayton Martindale
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Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay
Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage. MORE
Views · May 29, 2018
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Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy
Protecting the planet requires scaling down, not up. MORE
Culture · December 19, 2018
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Portrait of the Environmentalist as a Young Arsonist
Abby Geni's new novel, The Wildlands, explores means and ends in the fight for animal and Earth liberation. MORE
Culture · September 4, 2018
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Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless. MORE
Features · May 10, 2018
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Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
David Graeber had a hypothesis. The anthropologist grew up working-class in New York, and while his scholarship garnered accolades, he’s never felt at home in the world of academia. From his... MORE
Working · May 10, 2018
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Universal Basic Income: A Primer
Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government. MORE
Culture · April 25, 2018
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Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration
In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth. MORE
Features · April 22, 2018
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan
Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check. MORE
Features · April 9, 2018
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A Brief Case for Guaranteed Housing
Why housing should be a human right. MORE
Culture · March 6, 2018
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A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change
Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus. MORE
Views · January 30, 2018
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That Time When Virginia Woolf Called for Wages for Housework
Born 136 years ago today, Virginia Woolf was a pioneering feminist thinker who rejected the label “feminist”; she supported the Labour Party while showing little solidarity with her own servants. Her politics,... MORE
Working · January 25, 2018
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Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?
Why environmentalists are working to grant rivers and mountains legal status. MORE
Culture · January 24, 2018
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A Brief Case for Prison Abolition
We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete? MORE
Culture · December 27, 2017
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Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up
A primer on the solidarity economy. MORE
Culture · November 29, 2017
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Want a Radical Alternative to Trump’s Immigration Agenda? Try Open Borders.
It's not just a pipe dream. MORE
Culture · November 1, 2017
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Single-Payer Healthcare In 5 Minutes Or Less
Everyone is getting behind this prescription for a better healthcare system. But what is it exactly? MORE
Culture · September 13, 2017
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Democratic Socialism in 5 Minutes or Less
From Rosa Luxemburg to Bernie Sanders, a beginner’s guide. MORE
Culture · August 24, 2017
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The Abolitionist of Walden Pond
Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever. MORE
Culture · July 12, 2017
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Don’t Mine What’s Ours
How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP. MORE
Views · May 24, 2017
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Toward a Real-Life Zootopia
How a fuller conception of freedom can help humans and others coexist. MORE
Culture · March 28, 2017
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Defending the Commons: 40 Years of In These Times
As the corporate assault on the environment grow, so does the movement against it. MORE
Features · November 27, 2016
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An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump
The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. MORE
Features · November 21, 2016
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Listen, Omnivore! A Vegan’s Plea for Common Ground
Next Tuesday, sandwiched between ballot measures on charter schools and marijuana, Massachusetts voters will decide whether or not to pass one of the more progressive animal welfare measures in the country. &ldquo... MORE
Rural America · October 31, 2016
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We Got the Whole World in Our Hands, E.O. Wilson Says We Should Give Half of it Back
I want to get excited about Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, both the book that came out this month and the idea behind it. Prominent conservation biologist E.O. Wilson... MORE
Rural America · March 23, 2016
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Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change and How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness
The longtime writer and activist discusses the hope found in uncertainty, her experience at the Paris climate talks, the role of the writer and more. MORE
Features · March 11, 2016
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Lessons from the Original War on Coal: Class Conflict and the Fossil Economy
John R. Leifchild, author of Our Coal and Our Coal-Pits; The People in Them, and the Scenes Around Them, saw in that unassuming black rock the underpinnings of mid-19th century Britain&rsquo... MORE
Rural America · February 6, 2016
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Veganic: Do Organic Farming and Urban Food Justice Have Room for Animal Rights?
“People always say they’re going to go get local, grass-fed beef, but no one says they’re going to their SPCA to get their local dog meat,” says... MORE
Rural America · December 14, 2015
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Our Planet is Facing a New Mass Extinction: Can This Book Help Stop It?
There have been five known mass extinctions in Earth’s history, the most recent of which took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Uncovering this history was a scientific triumph, but if... MORE
Rural America · September 20, 2015
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Human Ego and the Grizzly Bear: Is the West Big Enough?
I recently went hiking in Yellowstone National Park. It is a place bursting with lakes and forests and canyons so large they threaten to swallow you up—at times, I found myself... MORE
Rural America · August 9, 2015
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Vatican Country: American Farmers on the Agricultural Message of Pope Francis
A July 1 press conference at the Vatican on climate change and inequality featured mostly the figures you’d expect: the cardinal in charge of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the... MORE
Rural America · July 28, 2015
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The Stolen Children of Maine: Native Wabanaki Seek Truth, Reconciliation Amidst a Cultural Genocide
My great-great-grandfather was brought into Taos, a city in what is now New Mexico, as a young Navajo boy around 1860. Slavery would soon be abolished, but at the time indigenous bondage was widespread.... MORE
Rural America · July 18, 2015
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How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons
Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore. MORE
Act Locally · July 17, 2015
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Beating Swords into Plowshares, Poison Gas into Pesticides
In the midst of World War I, Rudyard Kipling declared, “There are only two divisions in the world to-day—human beings and Germans.” That mindset was not unique to Kipling,... MORE
Rural America · July 5, 2015
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Ag-Gag Laws: The Less You Know The Better
Since a Republican majority was elected to the North Carolina state legislature in 2012, Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has signed into law bills that cut unemployment benefits, restrict voting rights, limit health care access... MORE
Rural America · June 19, 2015