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My favorite work from 2019

Why Environmental Groups Oppose Trump's Trade Deal

Climate Activists Target Exxon's Lawyer, A Prominent Democratic Donor

Bitcoin ransom at public schools??!!

Water is a human right

Can DC Avoid Becoming SF?

How teachers are mobilizing for climate action

Jessica Cisneros, 26-year-old running for Congress, picks up campaign steam

The 3 Democratic front-runners now have education plans

The time Bernie Sanders stood up to Teach for America

A labor win for 40,000 childcare workers

Capturing carbon, and a huge week for strikes

Cover story: K-12 Street

On "Solidarity for Climate Action"

How Democrats hope to win Wisconsin

How 22,000 state employees just secured collective bargaining rights

Barb Bearman is still breaking idols

This bill could upend the 'gig economy'

Meet Morgan Harper

Will Bernie Sanders stick with a carbon tax?

Climate finance 101 + inclusionary zoning's new threat

Awards! And the push for financial literacy in schools

Radical Teachers Rise Up in Baltimore

Leaked recording of donor call reveals candid GOP plans for weakening unions

Connecticut's Democratic Gov. is stonewalling the bill to make phone calls from prison free

What's next for the Green New Deal

Silicon Valley comes to home-based child care

Washington becomes first state to pass long-term care

A Green New Deal Bill in Maine holds lessons for climate + labor organizing

Could Mckayla Wilkes be the next AOC?

What is it *really* like to work for the Trump administration?

A black woman said she was afraid of the police. A nearly all-white ethics panel didn't believe her.

The new politics of retirement

A Senate push for smaller class sizes

On abortion access in a Post-Roe America

Organized Labor Reacts to the Green New Deal

A gambling update, Congress convenes on teacher pay + a retaliatory firing?

A union-led threat to charter school unions?

The most important challenge to school integration you've never heard of

Sheldon Adelson's Gift in the Govt. Shutdown

Grassroots Analytics: A Company Quietly Upending the Fundraising World

Israel/Palestine and campus BDS battles

L.A. teachers strike for first time in 30 years

A win for workers & why New Jersey is getting sued for school segregation