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Alex Main on Bolivia Coup
Media are celebrating the extra-legal pushout of Bolivia's first indigenous president, and welcoming the self-declared leadership of a legislator who has tweeted that she "dream[s] of a Bolivia free of satanic indigenous rites."
Ranked Choice Voting ‘Allows You to Vote for the Person You Really Like’
"It really rewards a certain kind of campaigning that...involves direct, virtually a person-to-person connection of earning trust, or at least having your campaign engage directly with people. So it changes incentives in a positive way."
The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup—Because US Wanted It to Happen
Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media are presenting the weekend’s events in Bolivia.
Rob Richie on Ranked Choice Voting, Netfa Freeman on Police Militarization
The passage of a ballot initiative in New York City will change the way we vote.
‘This Is a Huge Opportunity to Create an Energy System Rooted in Climate Justice’
"We hear a lot about ‘Exxon knew’ and ‘Shell knew’ on the news. But utilities knew too; they were part and parcel to the climate disinformation campaigns."
‘International Actors in Haiti Have Been Guarantors of the Status Quo’
"What people are looking for is not just a change in leadership, not just to change from one politician to another, but real reforms that are going to fundamentally change the system of governance, and the economic system that has gone along with it."
Johanna Bozuwa on Public Utilities, Jake Johnston on Haiti
At the heart of California's electrical crisis: climate disruption, of course, but also a private utility system that isn't now and never has been incentivized to address it.
‘The Law Is Only Ever a Part of What Creates a Just and Free Society’
"We need these rights protected in statute, we need them enforced by courts, we need them lived on the ground—and that's a much tougher thing to achieve, unfortunately."
‘There Are Noncoercive Solutions to Our Problems’
"The origins of policing should be understood as intimately tied to three major forms of accumulation during the 19th century, and these are slavery, colonialism and the new industrial workforce."
Dorothee Benz on LGBTQ Rights, Joe Emersberger on Ecuador Protests
The gap between what the law says LGTBQ people merit, and the harms and hardships they experience, can be cavernous.