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Cities & Communities
Posted inPolitics
Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural Incompetence
With a generous helping of COVID-19. This is Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley’s Best of 2021.
Posted inHousing
Washington Moves to Clear Unhoused People From Encampments
Social welfare advocates say these evictions are counterproductive and cruel.
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Utilities Polarize Over Push to Ban Natural Gas
A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against Big Oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
Posted inWorking in America
Throwing Money at People—Not Corporations—to Come to Town
Tulsa pays remote workers to move there, and it’s proved to be a better strategy than paying corporations to relocate there.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Challenging Georgia on Latino Voting Rights
The Voting Rights Act’s language minority provisions remain in force, but that doesn’t mean Latino voters receive the Spanish-language materials they need.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
At U.N. Climate Talks, What Mattered Most Went Unsaid
A Wall Street–led energy transition; punitive credit conditions for developing countries; sustained oil and gas drilling
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Rooted in Exclusion, California Towns Fight for Safe Drinking Water
What’s happening among underserved and unincorporated communities like Lanare, Matheny Tract, and Tooleville may portend darker days ahead.
Posted inWorking in America
The Bus Driver Strikes
After a long slump, more drivers are winning the right to collective bargaining. Now, the threat of privatization looms.
