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December 19, 2019
The Triumph of Injustice: From Boston to Richmond
Gabriel ZucmanEmmanuel Saez
The history of taxation in the United States is anything but linear. It’s a story of dramatic reversals, of sudden ideological and political changes, of...
Hot Off the Press
December 19, 2019
Politically Effective or Just Good at Campaigns?
Margaret Post
A research report on capacity building in 501(c)(4) organizations and the role of leadership.
Gabriel Zucman
Gabriel Zucman, born in Paris in 1986, is associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
December 16, 2019
Civic Power: Reclaiming Democracy’s Radicalism
Hollie Russon GilmanK. Sabeel Rahman
In this excerpt from the book Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis, authors K. Sabeel Rahman and Hollie Russon Gilman discuss restoring American democracy and rescuing it from crisis.
Political Organizing , Hot Off the Press
December 19, 2019
From Textathons to Black Joy: How Color of Change is Re-imagining Organizing
Micah L. SifryArisha Hatch
The idea, says Color of Change's chief of campaigns Arisha Hatch, is to center Black joy and to build face-to-face teams, which now number in the thousands, of...
Community Organizing, Interview, Political Organizing , Organizer Voices
December 18, 2019
What ACORN Taught Us
Elyshya MillerJeff Ordower
It has been ten years since the community group ACORN was destroyed.
Community Organizing , Organizer Voices
December 16, 2019
Merge Left
Ben Chin
There’s no excuse for recycling tired phrases about “the middle class,” or simply pointing out how Trump is bad, without injecting our own values and vision into...
Book Review , Review in Brief
December 17, 2019
Building the Movement for Tax Justice
Jasmine GripperRosemary RiveraJess WisneskiRavi ManglaCharles KhanMichael Kink
The new book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay has just come out, and it makes...
Interview , Organizer Voices
Ganesh Sitaraman
Ganesh Sitaraman is Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow, Professor of Law, and Director of the Program on Law and Government at Vanderbilt Law School.
December 16, 2019
Shadow Network
Brian Kettenring
Anne Nelson's Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right tells a holistic story of the toxic cocktail of extremist political...