At a time when we are encouraged to privatize love, bell hooks’s love ethic—love as a social pursuit—is more important than ever.
A Love Ethic
I’m Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World Building and Black Love
This essay explores how two impulses—the confrontation of injustice and escape from it—have played out in an emphasis on Black solidarity as a conduit for Black Freedom and in the construction of extensive Black Community and even Black Worlds.
Edgar Cahn’s Second Act: Time Banking and the Return of Mutual Aid
Once, Edgar Cahn was at the center of Great Society liberalism. Later, he took a different, less visible path—one based on building reciprocal networks of mutual aid.
We Owe You Nothing: The Movement to Cancel Student Debt Gains Ground
The fight to cancel student debt gains momentum as members of the Debt Collective call on President Biden to end federal student loan debt by executive order.
“No One Is Coming to Save Us”: Forging Paths to Native Financial Sovereignty
A Native American financial sovereignty moment is gaining ground, revolutionizing capital access for Native families and small businesses.
Unions and Worker Co-ops: Why Economic Justice Requires Collaboration
Unions and worker co-ops are increasingly joining forces to achieve a common goal of worker empowerment. But too often they act at cross purposes. This must change.
Salvadoran Foreign Agent Law Threatens Human Rights Movements
A new Salvadoran foreign agent law may be significantly more effective in shuttering human rights movements and nonprofit missions than its predecessors.
Charitable Tax Reform: Why Half Measures Won’t Curb Plutocracy
To truly democratize philanthropy, tax benefits for the wealthy must be curtailed and tax incentives for Americans of more modest means to donate must be raised.
Green New Deal or Stale Old Tax-Break Scam? Getting Electric Vehicle Incentives Right
The rush to invest in electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions is laudable. Giving corporations costly public subsidies with few community benefit requirements is not.
Leaders of Color at the Forefront of the Nonprofit Sector’s Challenges
Leaders of color are finally being asked to lead nonprofit organizations, but often it is to address longterm racial justice issues that are actually sector-level challenges.
Achieving Universal Banking: Lessons from the Delta
The road to universal access to banking services is long and winding, but in historically underserved Deep South communities, promising strategies have emerged.
How the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Drives Housing Inequality
While there are many drivers of the national crisis of housing affordability, one criterion that gets too little attention are Fed policies that inflate housing prices.