Our Top Stories Of 2019: 50 Reasons To Support The Indy
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Housing & Tenant Rights
Bridging The Divide: Upstate And Downstate Renters Join Forces
By Peter Rugh
How New Yorkers Banded Together And Cracked The Landlord Lobby
By Steven Wishnia
Erasing The Redline: Exploring Histories Of Housing Segregation In Order To Build A New Future
By Nancy Hoch
The Vultures Are Circling NYCHA
By Rico Cleffi
Activist Scholars Take On Big Developers
By Derek Ludovici
NYC Neighborhoods
Fighting For Their Park, LES Residents Challenge City’s Climate Change Plan
By John Tarleton
Oral History Preserves Bushwick One Story At A Time
By Chelsey Sanchez
Homeowners Gone Wild: A Proposed Shelter In Queens Has A Majority White Community On Edge
By Rico Cleffi
Spike In Traffic Deaths Has Cyclists Wondering If NYC Drivers Have A License To Kill
By Emma Gaffney
Meet The Inwood Tenants Fighting Barberry Rose, Landlord From Hell
By Steven Wishnia
Immigration
“Kids In Cages” At The Border Find Terra Firma In The Bronx
By Renée Feltz
Borderline Insane: Mexico Pays The Price For Trump’s War On Migrants
By Laura Carlsen
Trapped In Malta: The Mediterranean Island Is Putting Refugees Between A Rock And A Hard Place
By Jaclynn Ashly
Fleeing Violence In Their Homeland, Syrians Now Find Themselves Hounded In Turkey
By Jaclynn Ashly
Climate Change & Environmental Justice
Interview: Naomi Klein Is On Fire For A Green New Deal
By John Tarleton & Nancy Romer
Industry City: A Green New Deal vs. Gentrification In Sunset Park
By Chelsey Sanchez
No Safe Harbor For Rockaway Pipeline, Opponents Say
By Lydia McMullen-Laird
Diaper Change, Climate Change: Reflections On Parenting In An Era Of Global Warming
By Nicholas Powers
The Future Is Meatless
By Peter Rugh
Lead Crisis In Newark Raises Concerns About Taps: Here Are The Facts
By Jenny Blair
Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties
Is Queens Ready For A People’s DA?
By Theodore Hamm
Revolt Of The Outsiders: First AOC, Now Tiffany Cabán
By Libby Rainey
Plugging NYC’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
By Peter Rugh
Meet The Prisoners Killing Jim Crow Behind Prison Walls
By Olivia Riggio
Lessons From The FBI’s Secret War On Activism
By Michael Steven Smith
Feminism
The Equal Rights Amendment Is Back
By Eleanor Bader
Labor Conflict: With ‘Birth Strike’ Jenny Brown Tackles Population Decline
By Ann Schneider
Anger, the ‘Unfeminine’ Emotion
By Isobel von Hagen
Frida Kahlo: Communist, Feminist, Global Commodity
By Lauren Kaori Gurley
LGBTQ
No Cops, No Sponsors: 50 Years After Stonewall, Pride Goes Back To Its Roots
By Emma Gaffney
Gay Old Brooklyn: Hugh Ryan Takes A Look At The Borough’s Queer Past
By Jessica Max Stein
Gays In Uganda Face Wave Of Violence As Official Threatens To Resurrect Homosexual Death Penalty Bill
By Sophie Neiman
2020 Election
Bernie’s Dream: A Multi-Racial Working Class Movement That Transforms America
By Nicholas Powers
Bernie Sanders Abroad: Is A Peace Presidency Possible?
By Mark Haim
Warren Pieces: Does The Presidential Candidate’s Plans To Break Up Big Tech Go Far Enough?
By Maia Hibbett
Michael Bloomberg Is Back: But Are Uninspiring Centrists Like Him Really More Electable?
By Danny Katch
Labor & Health Care
2 Centuries, 10 Strikes: Eric Loomis Offers An Insightful History Of U.S. Labor
By Steven Sherman
The Medicare For All Mystery
By Paddy Quick
Out Of Patience: NYC Nurses Take ON Hospitals For Better Staffing
By Peter Rugh
International
Inside The Amazon: Why The World’s Largest Rainforest Continues To Burn
By Brian Mier
As ‘Puerto Rican Summer’ Draw To A Close, People’s Assemblies Spring Up Across The Island
By Juan C. Dávila
In Modi’s India, An Ancient Symbol Begins To Look Like Its Germanic Double
By Manvi Jalan
After The Christchurch Massacre: Reexamining The Roots Of Terror
By Nicholas Powers
Interview: Medea Benjamin On What’s Really Happening In Iran
By John Tarleton
Letter From Catalonia: Barcelona’s Occupy Mayor Wins A Second Term
By Elia Gran
French Yellow Vests Celebrate One-Year Anniversary As General Strike Looms
By Richard Greeman
Nazi Hipsters: Europe’s Identitarians Are Young, Fashionable and Proto-Fascist
By Maresi Starzman
Culture
Movie Review: Lessons From The Brink With Steve Bannon
By Mark Read
Interview: Journalist Lewis Wallace Refuses To Be ‘Neutral’ In The Age Of Trump
By Renée Feltz
Sewing Dissent With Textile Artist Diana Weymar
By Celestina Billington
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