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Amazon is Way Too Big

Posted December 21, 202000:53:59

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made a staggering $74 billion in 2020, despite the U.S. entering its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression....

Indigenous Perspectives on the Rights of Nature

Posted December 18, 202000:53:17

“We have to take care of all of creation because it is us.” That’s Simone Senogles, who was arrested earlier this week for protesting Line 3,...

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 2020 Edition

Posted December 17, 202000:53:09

As the Trump presidency draws to a close, the administration has moved to solidify a number of initiatives on the international diplomatic front, especially...

Prison Abolition and the Free the 350 Bail Fund

Posted December 16, 202000:53:07

The Madison organization Free the 350 Bail Fund works to bail out Black people incarcerated in the Dane County jail system. They argue that incarceration...

Who’s Got the Power in a Pandemic?

Posted December 15, 202000:53:15

In the course of her reporting on local government this year, WORT news director Chali Pittman kept noticing a certain principle being invoked: the...