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Alex Mell-Taylor
What will the future of intentional housing look like?
Alex Mell-Taylor
Summer 2024
An interview on the barriers, promises and tribulations of intentional communities. Featuring three communities operating in VA, MD and DC.
Alexandria residents pass "People's Ceasefire" resolution
Alex Mell-Taylor
Spring 2024
After seizing control of an Alexandria city council meeting, Northern Virginia locals introduced and passed their own resolution calling for an end to Israel's genocide.
What would a police free future look like?
Alex Mell-Taylor
November 2023
The revolution will not be message tested.
What will journalism look like under a socialist future?
Alex Mell-Taylor
October 2023
A wide-ranging interview with photo journalist Michael Key on the current problems with journalism and its future under socialism.
Should the public trust approval voting?
Alex Mell-Taylor
September 2023
An innocuous sounding voting system is being boosted by some of the biggest enemies of the working-class.
The future of energy policy (ft. We Power's Tom McBrien)
Alex Mell-Taylor
April 2023
What would a future with publicly owned power look like, and how do we get there?
What will the future of housing policy look like?
Alex Mell-Taylor
March 2023
A discussion with DSA member and Stomp Out Slumlords tenant organizer Katlyn Cotton on the socialist vision of housing.
The Work of Art in the Age of AI
Alex Mell-Taylor
January 2023
A troubling new technology risks deteriorating working conditions for working artists.
What do YIMBYs of NOVA really want?
Alex Mell-Taylor
December 2022
YIMBYs of NOVA promises to "make housing affordable to all" through more development. However, its leaders' ideological commitments call to question just how much their proposals will result in real gain for NOVA's working-class.
Arlington County's "Missing Middle" is a Red Herring
Alex Mell-Taylor
November 2022
How Arlington rebranded Reaganomics as “diversity.”
Mayor Bowser's botched public safety policy
Alex Mell-Taylor
June 2022
It's simple to wave your hand and say you will hire an unrealistic number of police officers. But reality is more complicated than that.
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the housing fund she mismanaged
Alex Mell-Taylor
June 2022
The vehicle Mayor Bowser is using to build more affordable units is not well managed, and her administration has a history of using it to reward developers that do not perform the best.
When Socialism Came to Reading, Pennsylvania
Alex Mell-Taylor
March 2022
The history of this old socialist stronghold contains lessons for those building and sustaining working-class power today.