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If democracy means only voting every 2-4 years, it becomes something distant and theoretical.
But if you give people tangible ways to improve their community with their neighbors, it can make democracy feel like something worth saving.
Bring back local, year-round democracy.
NEW: Private equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has pillaged health care and the life sciences. Now, he’s trying to expand an ecologically disastrous private-jet airport.
Time to expose this oligarch. IPS scholar @Chuck99to1 in @thenation: thenation.com/article/societ…
Trillion-dollar corporations will blow money on anything except the workers that keep them operational.
A document unveiled in a court case appears to show Amazon using AI to track workers and rank how likely they are to form unions.
The document has been released as part of court proceedings between Amazon and Canadian union Unifor.
It shows Amazon using an AI tool dubbed "Atlas" to give warehouses a risk score of between 100 and 900 for union activity, with a lower score meaning it believes workers are more likely to unionize. A higher score is “better” for leaders at the company, the document says.
novaramedia.com/2026/10/19/a…
With the rise of paid content creators and more people turning to social media for news, journalism is experiencing a crisis at a time when we need it most.
If we want to save our democracy, that must include investment in journalism.
@SonaliKolhatkar otherwords.org/worried-about…
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Between higher utility bills, lower tax revenue, and more pollution, data centers are rarely a net positive for locals.
Instead of earning trust with transparency, Big Tech is trying to ram these projects through with as much secrecy as possible -- and people aren't having it!
NEW: Trump’s EPA head, Lee Zeldin, is decreeing that there’s no need for local communities to be consulted or even notified of new polluting AI data centers.
People are fighting data centers.
The government is fighting people.
Zeldin has also unilaterally declared making the U.S. “the artificial intelligence capital of the world” one of the EPA’s five central priorities. @JimHightower: otherwords.org/people-are-fi…
The news of publishing giant McClatchy’s plan to institute massive cuts to reporting staff across its 30 newspaper empire should serve as a warning of the danger AI poses to journalism—especially on the local level.
@millsrodrigo on Tech Policy Press:techpolicy.press/cutting-loc…
🎙️ EVENT: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, neo-colonial leadership has forfeited the future. This #CongoWeek, hear how Congolese youths are organizing to win that future back.
📍 IPS office & online
📅 Fri, Oct 23
🕑 12 pm ET / 5 pm WAT
Register: ips-dc.org/event/congo-in-fo…
While statistics show the income of New York City residents has grown in the last 5 years, most of that growth has been confined to the top percentile—while the majority of New Yorkers face an affordability crisis.
Julian Villa on @inequalityorg inequality.org/article/new-y…
NEW: Community life — places where you can walk in and know people, take responsibility for something, make decisions together — is collapsing all over the country.
Defending our democracy nationally requires rebuilding this participation locally.
IPS fellow Kate Hess Pace in @Barn_Raising: barnraisingmedia.com/2026-el…
As we approach this year’s pivotal midterms, scholars of democracy warn that there are signs the Trump administration could be preparing to obstruct the process.
To ensure that every qualified voter can vote, here are some ways Americans can step up. otherwords.org/preparing-for…
For more information, check out The American Crisis: a new report from democracy experts Ben Manski, Michael Shank, and April Doner. americancrisis.report/
In response to the rapidly rising price of tickets at the U.S. Open—an event once known for its affordability—New York City’s mayor Zohran Mamdani has instituted a plan to make the event accessible to more New Yorkers.
Julian Villa on @inequalityorg inequality.org/article/can-t…