The 2021 Steering Committee's annual report.

How equitably can federal funds be released for infrastructure? It depends on how skilled local and state governments are at scooping up and managing those funds.

Has the national defund movement slowed? Part of the problem may be the movement’s messaging.

In DC, the Defund MPD effort has found quiet success in changing policy and opinions on policing shared by the broader public.

The controversy stirred up by Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s vote to fund Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system and his meeting with the repulsive Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett raises questions about the posture of the US Left towards Palestinian liberation, Zionism and anti-Semitism.

We round up the best good reads to walk us into a high-information — and high stakes — 2022.