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Book Review: 'What’s Left'

2025 MPD Performance Oversight Testimony

Stop and Frisk: A Tale of Two (Atro)Cities

Into the Fire: Organizing Against Extreme Heat

Pepco tries to hide rate hikes behind climate readiness

More than 'Finding The Money': MMT, Political Strategy, and the State

New report: What is social housing and why is grassroots support growing?

The Socialist Case for TOPA

Secure DC is now the law: here's what to know

Unmasking the new wave of anti-mask legislation

The Capitalist War On Telework: Why Managers Suppress Pro-Worker Innovation

Public speech, political inaction

DC fails to protect its children

Reading on international law and the war against Gaza

A new Football Stadium for DC? Just say “No”

Should the public trust approval voting?

DC should municipalize its energy utility and embrace public power

2023 MPD Budget Oversight Testimony

2023 MPD Performance Oversight Testimony

Cuts to Medicare Advantage, or Cogs in the Money Machine?

How to Disillusion the Public — DC’s Budget Engagement Forums

Hogan's Zeroes

How Montgomery County builds social housing on the cheap

Five lawsuits demonstrate MPD's inability to reform

Decarbonizing DC will be dirty work

Arlington County's "Missing Middle" is a Red Herring

Build highways or fight climate change? Biden Administration can't have both

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

Mayor Bowser's botched public safety policy

On education, Mayor Bowser's talk is too cheap

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

Food waste, hunger, and the compulsion of wagedom

Time to derail the Railway Labor Act?

For Socialist Realism on Foreign Policy

DC's defund effort - one year out

The Message Is the Movement: Thoughts on Police Defunding

Leveling the playing field starts with a common language for improvement

All prisoners are political, from DC to Palestine #FreeThemAll

October Reconciliation Roundup

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

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

From Austin to Afghanistan: Outrages Against Democracy

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

Update: Freeway Removal Funding Gutted in Senate Infrastructure Bill

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

Tearing down the highways

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

Reimagining the Police

On Climate, Biden Falls Far Short

Two Cheers for MMT

Voting Expansion vs. Suppression: The War is On

No Better Time Than Now for Medicare for All

Democracy and Microgrids

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

Voter Suppression and the State of American Democracy

Election 2020: Be Ready for Anything

Improved Courts, Yes, But Improved Legislators As Well

At the heart of capitalism lie prisons and police

Workers Blast Hogan for Disastrous Reponse to MD Unemployment Crisis

Trump’s Attacks Show Why DC Needs Statehood

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

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

Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook?

Promoting Action on Diversity Equality and Inclusion

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

Organizing for Justice

Maryland still has work to do on criminal justice reform

DC Statehood Hearing:  Civil Rights Clashes with GOP Partisanship

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

Prison Abolition and the War on the Poor

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

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

Maryland Assembly Session limps to close, faces big leadership decision

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

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

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

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

Political Events Around Assembly Session Sketch a Divided Debate

The Trump Shutdown: Fed-Bashing With a Purpose

Multistate decarbonization compact offers window for ecosocialist activism

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

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

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

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

It’s Time for a Public Bank in DC

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Endangered Species Act

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

Failure to fix Metrorail could hammer local economy, report finds

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

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

Metro jurisdictions, finally heeding DSA, agree to dedicated funding

What to do about the social network we built?

The choices presented by the March for Our Lives

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

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

Using Trade to Develop Nations and Protect Workers

So, Let’s Talk Taxes

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