Sam Rosenthal is the political director at RootsAction and serves on the Democratic Socialists of America’s National ...

This week Donald Trump and the Republican Party suffered one of the most vehement repudiations of a sitting president in modern U.S. history. After the most expensive midterm election season ever, ...

Since taking front row seats at Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, Big Tech companies led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and others have accumulated more profits and ...

This story is part of the series Taking Back the Public Commons. It was a historic bill, one that paved the way for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani to enact a similar program. Expanding free child ...

This story is part of the series Taking Back the Public Commons. After years of organizing by a coalition of transit, environmental, and community organizing groups, the Chicago region’s transit ...

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This story is part of the series Taking Back the Public Commons. “Either way, even if it doesn’t, but definitely if it wins, it’s going to set a new standard for the type of tax that people can demand ...

This story is part of the series Taking Back the Public Commons. The housing crisis emerged as a central issue last month in Providence, Rhode Island, as Democratic socialist David Morales unseated ...

is Director of Membership and Advocacy at The People’s Lobby, an organization of people across the Chicago region who fight together for racial, economic, and environmental justice. He was born in ...

The state of New Mexico in 2025 made headlines for being the first in the nation to enact free universal child care. A 12-year-long grassroots push by advocacy groups and activists to address the ...

Reporting, analysis, and ideas from the movements pushing to spend public money on public goods and services. This is the first series of new solutions journalism published by YES! since the ...