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Alerts Customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas last week. Photo: LM Otero (AP) Right now, Texas is in the balmy mid-50s. Yet just a week ago, it was colder than Alaska, and we all know what happened next. Much of the state’s energy capacity got knocked offline, leaving millions of people without power, heat, and water for days. Advertisement The extreme weather itself was an anomaly, caused by a particularly nasty blast of chilly Arct...

“Ecosocialismo: Envisioning Latin America’s Green New Deal” is a virtual event hosted by NACLA. It is the first in a special three-part series of online events on some of the most pressing issues facing the region, while also celebrating NACLA‘s 50-year history of promoting hemispheric solidarity and critical analysis. The event takes place on February 4, 2021, 7:00-9:00pm. [A Zoom meeting link will provided prior to the event.] About the Event: A radical Green New Deal for the Amer...

AlterLaa in Vienna composes a neighborhood of social housing towers atop a shopping mall. (foto by Margherita Spiluttini, Architekturzentrum Wien) Since the Reagan administration, the federal government has gotten out of the game of producing social housing itself. A new report titled “The Case for Social Housing” calls for the federal government to reverse that in a big way and produce twelve million social housing units by 2030, echoing a proposal from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minneapolis). Wh...