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Karen Dolan

Karen Dolan directs the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. The focus of her work is on anti-poverty issues, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform,...

• Biden’s inflation bill isn’t Build Back Better, but it’s a good start

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Marcy Gordon

AP reporter in Washington, covering business, financial issues, occasional scandals, pandemic fallout, and tech policy/politics.

• For first time ever, corporate stock buyback manipulation will be taxed

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Dylan Manshack

Dylan Manshack is a multimedia journalist writing from Texas.

• Americans could beat lung cancer if U.S. lifted blockade of Cuba
• Meet the billionaire who canceled student loan forgiveness

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Brian Lopez

Brian Lopez is the Public Education Reporter for The Texas Tribune.

• Rural Texans—even conservative ones—unconvinced by Republicans’ public school privatization crusade

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Paul Roberson

Paul Roberson, J.D. (Juris Doctor) and LLM (Master of Laws).

• Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028 should include Cuban players
• To Chile, with love: Remembering those lost under the Pinochet regime

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Peter Molenaar

Peter Molenaar is a long-time Twin Cities, Minn.,  People's World supporter.

• Lunch ladies strike after Hastings, Minn., school board stonewalls contract negotiations
• Minneapolis Starbucks workers send warning with two-day strike: Negotiate a contract now

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Rebecca Pera

Rebecca Pera writes from North Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Willie Nelson won’t cross a picket line
• Lunch ladies strike after Hastings, Minn., school board stonewalls contract negotiations

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Diana Scott

Diana Scott is a San Francisco-based writer whose dance, theatre, and arts reviews, and pieces on architecture and the urban environment, have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the...

• Portrait of ‘Fighter’ Emmy Lou Packard at Richmond Art Center

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David Hill

David Hill is a member of the Mike Gold Writers’ Collective. He follows labor, LGBTQ rights, policing, and other issues. He is a member of the National Writers Union and...

• ‘Make art, not AI weapons’: Ohio unites against autonomous weapons factory
• Labor movement puts muscle behind Amy Acton in Ohio governor’s race

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