Soft secession, a novel legal theory suggesting that blue states withhold funds from and reduce reliance on the federal government, is a growing idea among Democrats across the United States. As the Trump administration consolidates its hostility toward blue states, whether it be through ICE raids or police takeovers, Democrats
American cities are hungry. In 2010, 32.1% of Memphis, Tennessee, residents lived in food deserts according to the USDA. 26.2% of San Antonio, 23% of New Orleans-Metairie, and 17% of Providence-Warwick lived in areas without adequate access to affordable and healthy groceries. In the wealthiest country on Earth,
Municipal governments are powerhouses of societal progress unrealized at the federal level, from raising the minimum wage and taxing the rich to Green New Deals and mitigating climate change. Urban socialists from mayors of the New Deal era to NYC Democratic primary winner Zohran Mamdani all believe in the capacity
Trump still wants Greenland, but while the cardinal motives involve geopolitical interests in the Arctic, and rare Earth minerals for U.S. defense and tech corporations, the deeper and reverberated substrate playing out is one that the mostly Indigenous Greenlandic population has dealt with and resisted for centuries–colonialism–and
Green New Deal
If we are pragmatic, we must recognize that, under the Trump administration, the Green New Deal is not federally viable. However hostile to Green New Deal politics, the Trump administration’s efforts to undo climate policies can be countered if progressives play their cards right. Within the halls of the
New Great Society
The brutal monolithic design of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin is a bold transgression of the surrounding green space, holding within its walls the unfinished legacy of former president Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. I think about the many dedications to LBJ that decorate Texas, from the Presidential