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Former congressional candidate Julie Oliver canvasses on behalf of Homes Not Handcuffs' "No on Prop B" campaign in March (Photo by David Brendan Hall) In June 2019, after many years of pressure from justice advocates, Austin's increasingly left-leaning City Council voted to roll back the city's 20-year-old ordinances that banned camping, sitting or lying down, and panhandling in many public spaces. These moves to decriminalize the experience of homelessness, and to acknowledge that the growing presence and needs of Austin's unsheltered poor could not solely be handled by law...

‘Astroturfing’ and the rise of misinformation campaigns and last updated 2021-01-28 15:18:23-05 CHICAGO — Despite the natural urge to gravitate toward information that reinforces our own views, most agree that people genuinely want to be well-informed. But in recent years, campaigns by corporations, lobbyists and political operatives sowing division and suspicion have become a common problem. Soon after the coronavirus pandemic began, small anti-stay-at-home protests erupted in dozens of states around the country. “When things appear to be spontaneous and exciting, and es...