Cycling gained popularity during the pandemic, but efforts to revamp city streets to accommodate both cars and bikes met with mixed success.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
The Incremental, Inadequate Changes That Nonetheless Led to the Chauvin Conviction
Minneapolis’s former mayor says they weren’t enough, but they were essential.
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions
In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Will Biden Cancel Minnesota’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline?
President Biden’s climate plan will greatly reduce the need for future oil pipelines, but in the meantime Minnesota’s Line 3 hangs in the balance.
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Worker Centers: Where Causes Cohere, and Forge Power
At the crossroads of diverse social movements and worker representation, many centers have become models of intersectionality.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How We Got to a Just Verdict
On the indispensability of smart, militant movements
Posted inCivil Rights in America
A Journalist Marked by Police Violence
Linda Tirado, partially blinded by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis protests, remains an important voice against social and economic injustice in America.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Welcome to the White House Terrordome
The lynching of George Floyd sparked the violence that African Americans expected from Trump’s presidency.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Our Police Problem
White male cops are the last people we should employ to police our cities.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Scott Walker and the Failure of Trickle Down
In Minnesota, progressive taxes and social spending have created more and better-paying jobs than next-door neighbor Wisconsin has created through tax and spending cuts.