[Community] Why Police Reform Is Not Enough By Alex Vitale Posted July 1, 2020 By conceptualizing the problem of policing as one of inadequate training and professionalization, reformers fail to directly address how the very nature of policing and the legal system...

[Community] What Happened to Crime in Camden, New Jersey? by Sarah Holder Posted June 28, 2020 Camden is now something of a showroom for community policing techniques. Officers are trained to use handguns and handcuffs only as tools of last resort. To increase...

[Community] Feds flew an unarmed Predator drone over Minneapolis protests to provide “situational awareness” By Rebecca Heilweil Posted May 30, 2020 The fact that the government uses a range of technology to surveil protesters, including black activists, is by no...

[Community] Why Humanity Should Look To Its Roots As We Revillage Our Towns And Cities By April M. Short Posted May 26, 2020 Our current ways of living are life-threatening and unsustainable. Our increasingly individualized society is contributing to epidemic levels...

[Community] Even Scientific American admits that 5G could devastate public health By Ethan Huff Posted April 8, 2020 There’s a growing consensus even among establishment scientists that the introduction of 5G isn’t a good thing for human health. An article recently...

[Community] CSA: How to Support Local Farmers as Restaurants and Farmers Markets Close By April M. Short Posted April 26, 2020 The global outbreak of COVID-19, and the collective effort to slow down the spread of the virus, has many people reassessing how they should...

[Community] Why the US Sucks at Building Public Transit by Aaron Gordon Posted April 20, 2020 American cities are facing a transportation crisis. There’s terrible traffic. Public transit doesn’t work or go where people need it to. The cities are growing, but newcomers...

[Community] Coronavirus: Potential vaccine generates enough antibodies to fight off virus, first peer-reviewed study suggests by Chris Baynes A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by US scientists has been found to produce antibodies capable of fighting off...

[Community] How to Turn Your Yard Into an Ecological Oasis By Tyler Wells Lynch Posted April 4, 2020 For years, Toni Genberg assumed a healthy garden was a healthy habitat. That’s how she approached the landscaping around her home in northern Virginia. On trips to the...

[Community] 5 Ways You Can Help Your Fellow Humans During The Coronavirus Madness by Matt Agorist Posted March 25, 2020 Monday marked a day in this country which has never happened. From coast to coast millions of workers simultaneously found out that they will not...

[Community] Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide by J. Kenji López-Alt Posted March 23, 2020 Like many densely populated metropolitan areas, the Bay Area is now on complete lockdown. All non-essential businesses are closed, gatherings of large groups of...

[Community] How one Utah community fought the fracking industry—and won By Tara Lohan Posted March 11, 2020 Kanab sits just seven miles north of the Arizona state line, at the crossroads of some of the Southwest’s most beautiful places. In every direction a geologic...

[Community] Localism in the 2020s – Facial Recognition, Psilocybin and Beyond by Michael Krieger Posted March 8, 2020 Contrary to popular opinion, I think a loss of faith in Washington D.C. and its institutions is entirely rational and healthy. Maintaining faith in...

[Community] How to Disappear in a "Smart" City by Jessica Leigh Hester Posted February 28, 2020 Is it possible to move through a smart city undetected? Smart technologies can ease traffic, carve out safer pedestrian passages, and analyze environmental factors such as...

[Community] NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Ties To Israel By Randi Nord Posted February 26, 2020 New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech...

[Community] City Tells Church it Will Lose Religious Designation Because it Shelters Homeless People by John Vibes Posted February 20, 2020 Earlier this week, on Christmas Eve, an order from the city of Cleveland was posted on the door of the Denison Avenue United...

[Community] As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, U.S. Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs by Justin Mikulka Posted February 8, 2020 In over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in...

[Community] The NSA's Eye in the Sky: Blimp Spies on Americans by C. Mitchell Shaw Posted January 13, 2020 The surveillance hawks — it would appear — are never satisfied. When it comes to harvesting the data of American citizens, their mantra seems to be “too much is...

[Community] The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a post-capitalist cooperative by George Dafermos Posted January 10, 2020 The Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC) is one of the most interesting cooperative projects which have sprung up during...

[Community] Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S. by Jonathan English Posted January 6, 2020 The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more...

[Community] Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down by Matthew Gault Posted January 5, 2020 A new project aims to make LibGen, which hosts 33 terabytes of scientific papers and books, much more stable. It’s hard to find free and...

[Community] In Detroit, A New Type of Agricultural Neighborhood Has Emerged By Biba Adams Posted January 2, 2019 A decade ago, a resurgence of urban gardens and farms sprouted a new agricultural trend around the country. And while many of them continue to thrive, in...