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April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
March 1, 2021
Clio Chang
Either We Break Our Pandemic Debts or Our Pandemic Debts Break Us
If millions had no hope of paying their bills before the pandemic, and millions more can’t pay now, what’s left to do but say no?
September 8, 2020
Magazine
Astra Taylor
The End of the University
The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.
April 30, 2020
Nick Martin
The Era of the Endless Rent Strike
Out of work and with little savings, millions of tenants are already part of a movement. They just don’t know it yet.
February 7, 2020
Nick Martin
The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans
A growing movement poses the question: We have the numbers, so what if we just stopped?
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