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Gentrification, Homelessness and Elections: When Does a Difference Make a Difference?

On education, Mayor Bowser's talk is too cheap

Mayor Bowser's botched public safety policy

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the housing fund she mismanaged

Testimony Provided to the DC Council's Police Oversight Hearings

What’s Really Behind Attacks on the Teaching of America’s Racial History

For Socialist Realism on Foreign Policy

Leveling the playing field starts with a common language for improvement

The Message Is the Movement: Thoughts on Police Defunding

DC's defund effort - one year out

October Reconciliation Roundup

All prisoners are political, from DC to Palestine #FreeThemAll

China and the Left: A Report from the People’s Forum

From Austin to Afghanistan: Outrages Against Democracy

Police Brutality, Gentrification and the Thin Blue Line: Rest in Power An’Twan Gilmore

To Leave the IMPACT Behind, District Educators Should Let Go of Merit Pay

Update: Freeway Removal Funding Gutted in Senate Infrastructure Bill

What's up with the District's crime scare?

Unfinished business in the MD Assembly: where is the progressive impulse?

Tearing down the highways

Reimagining the Police

On Climate, Biden Falls Far Short

No Better Time Than Now for Medicare for All

Voting Expansion vs. Suppression: The War is On

Two Cheers for MMT

Democracy and Microgrids

DC Police Union Negotiations Are Another Front in the Fight for Abolition

Homeless disenfranchisement in the United States: State election barriers, analysis, and best practices

Election 2020: Be Ready for Anything

Voter Suppression and the State of American Democracy

Improved Courts, Yes, But Improved Legislators As Well

At the heart of capitalism lie prisons and police

Trump’s Attacks Show Why DC Needs Statehood

Workers Blast Hogan for Disastrous Reponse to MD Unemployment Crisis

Hogan’s public-private highway scam riddled with loopholes and lies

Jobs with meaning and hope are subtext of 2020 MD Assembly mandate

Medicare For All Or Endless War? It’s Our Choice

Promoting Action on Diversity Equality and Inclusion

Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook?

Organizing for Justice

Maryland still has work to do on criminal justice reform

DC Statehood Hearing:  Civil Rights Clashes with GOP Partisanship

Prison Abolition and the War on the Poor

Single-Member Assembly Districts Will Help End MD's Incumbent Protection System

Venezuela coup, the "Final Phase" -- US machinations stall but media revel in the myth

Meeting the Needs of Returning Citizens: A Prince George’s County Update

By offsetting federal tax cuts, we can improve the quality of life for DC residents

Maryland Assembly Session limps to close, faces big leadership decision

Gov. Hogan's Maryland Budget Doesn't Stand Up to Analysis for Social Needs

Hogan Administration Drops Transit Options from Scheme for Privatized Toll Lanes on Beltway, I-270

The Labor, Health and Cultural Costs Of ‘McWorld’ Hamburger Hegemony

The Trump Shutdown: Fed-Bashing With a Purpose

Political Events Around Assembly Session Sketch a Divided Debate

Multistate decarbonization compact offers window for ecosocialist activism

Outgoing MD Lawmaker, DSA Member, Launching Pro Bono Lobbying Shop

The Occupation Free DC campaign aims to end MPD program with Israeli forces

Larry Hogan's Racist Transportation Scheme - playing to his base

Trump’s EPA Proposes Changes That Would Gut U.S. Efforts to Slow Global Warming

It’s Time for a Public Bank in DC

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Endangered Species Act

Failure to fix Metrorail could hammer local economy, report finds

How a High-Stakes Win For Gamblers in New Jersey Can Help Immigrants in California

What to do about the social network we built?

Metro jurisdictions, finally heeding DSA, agree to dedicated funding

Climate Challenge II: How Selected Coastal Cities Are Planning for Rising Ocean Waters -- or Not

Climate Challenge Ahead: What Rising Oceans Might Mean for Society – and Socialism – by 2100

The choices presented by the March for Our Lives

After California's fire and mud disasters, how should society prevent even worse to come?

How Maryland systematically criminalizes poverty - Summary from the Jobs Opportunity Task Force

So, Let’s Talk Taxes

Using Trade to Develop Nations and Protect Workers

Maglev? Hyperloop? Maryland should fix what it's got

2018: Assembly Session and Elections Intertwine in Maryland

Hogan's Highway Plan a War Against Middle-Class Drivers

The Potential Impact of Energy Micro Grids

National Parks Under Siege

DCPS Teachers Have Been working without a contract since 2012

Pushback comes quickly to Trump's exit from Paris climate accord

Hegemony How-To -- Smucker's road map has utility

Social Justice and Peace in the Mid-East: Meeting with Rep Anthony Brown

Carbon fees/taxes debated in Metro DC climate committee

Transit as a core of community success

UBI gains interest as "the end of work" approaches

Origins of social anger at bureaucratic government

Trump behaves (surprise!) like a capitalist. So did Obama

McCarthyism in Maryland? Bill blacklists supporters of Palestinian human rights

Interstate Sound Barriers can provide PV Solar to Metrorail

Affordable housing in Arlington is a challenge for activists

Suicide by Climate

No thanks To Trump, auto industry's savage restructuring is a long-term project

How municipal socialism arrived in Milwaukee

Climate Change is not a business opportunity

Can Bush's bailout chief persuade Trump to end "Too Big to Fail?"

Trump's toxic nominees: another argument for DC Statehood

"Repatriation" of overseas corporate cash -- clawback or backfire?

Trump's Puzzling and Under-Covered Excursion to Mexico