Greg Casar, a former city council member from Austin, Texas, says yes.
Cities & Communities
Posted inTransportation
Fare or Free?
Fare evasion and stepped-up enforcement reignite the debate on fareless transit. If going fare-free is the answer, then the question is: Who pays?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Building Steam in Lithium Valley
Imperial County, one of the most depressed areas in America, has a clean-energy fortune stored deep in an underground reservoir. Can it be extracted, and will downtrodden residents see the benefits?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
But for the Blizzards, a Climate Utopia?
Ignore those six-foot snowbanks—if you want some climate security, Buffalo wants you.
Posted inPolitics
The Rural Turnaround
Democrats have only begun to do better in rural America—but the road map is there.
Posted inPolitics
Beyond the 12-Mile Limit
Why Democrats win the cities and lose the states, and what to do about it.
Posted inPolitics
New Immigrants Wrestle With the Mechanics of Voting
Twenty years after Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, Philadelphia and Berks County elections officials still have challenges providing election supports.
Posted inPolitics
How Democrats Mishandled Crime
The most effective issue for Republicans in this midterm is a result of Democratic elites failing to understand what their diverse base of working-class voters wants.
Posted inPolitics
Can the Hotel Workers’ Union Save the Democrats?
In Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the union has been talking to voters about progressive fixes to inflation for months, when Democrats didn’t know what to say.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Immigration Justice Ballot Measure Tests Massachusetts Progressivism
Question 4 would uphold a state law allowing undocumented residents to get driver’s licenses. Supporters are pitching it as a public-safety measure.