Nathan Schneider

is a journalist and assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a YES! contributing editor, an editor of the online literary magazine Killing the Buddha, and the author of three books, including Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy.

Articles By This Author

Economy

A Practical Approach to Making Co-ops Work

We don’t need a revolution to achieve a fair economy.

Nathan Schneider | Dec 18, 2018

Issues

A Populism of Hope Begins When People Feel Their Own Power

At work behind almost any great social movement is an engine of counter-economy.

Nathan Schneider | Jan 16, 2018

Economy

How Co-ops Can Make Infrastructure Great Again

If the Trump administration is serious about bringing jobs and pride back to rural America, they should take a lesson from cooperatives of the 1930s.

Nathan Schneider | Jan 18, 2017

Economy

How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values

As cooperative culture spreads into the tech world, Loomio is part of a new wave of entrepreneurs figuring out how to finance a more democratic, values-centered online economy.

Nathan Schneider | Apr 26, 2016

Environment

Soon, Oregon Polluters May Have to Pay Residents for Changing the Climate

A group of activists in Oregon wants polluters to pay residents for using their air. I spoke with Camila Thorndike, director of Oregon Climate, about this unusual effort to put a price on carbon.

Nathan Schneider | Dec 9, 2015

Economy

What If We Owned the Internet Together? It’s Time to Bring the Co-op Revolution to the Web

The flourishing of farmers markets and credit unions demonstrates a longing for business that serves the common good. Can it infiltrate the Amazon-dominated, Uberized Internet?

Nathan Schneider, Trebor Scholz | Nov 9, 2015

Colorado Pushes for Universal Health Care That’s Governed by the People

Next year, residents will vote on replacing the Affordable Care Act with ColoradoCare, a plan that works like a cooperative. In a purple state like this, it just might work.

Nathan Schneider | Oct 23, 2015

Holacracy illustration by Jennifer Luxton.

Democracy

A Techy Management Fad Gives Workers More Power—Up to a Point

Holacracy aims to liberate workers from micromanagement by replacing bosses with code-like rules modeled on computer programming.

Nathan Schneider | Oct 1, 2015

Borrowers and investors of Salish Sea Cooperative Finance. Photo by Paul Dunn.

Issues

For These Borrowers and Lenders, Debt Is a Relationship Based on Love

There could be a different financial system, one where debt allows us to honor our freedom rather than our servitude.

Nathan Schneider | Sep 21, 2015

Democracy

Owning Together Is the New Sharing

Companies and startups are aspiring toward an economy, and an Internet, that is more fully ours with the use of cooperatives, "commons-based peer production," and cryptocurrencies.

Nathan Schneider | Dec 31, 2014

This graphic came out of Freedom Summer 2014. Image courtesy of Waging Nonviolence / Sandra Khalifa.

Social Justice

After Ferguson, It’s Time to Turn a Civil Rights Moment Into a Human Rights Movement

“We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level—to the level of human rights.”

Nathan Schneider | Oct 8, 2014

Economy

Don't Leave BitCoin to the Libertarians! (Or, Why Your Movement Needs Open Source Money)

Movements for economic justice and equality are rarely flush with cash. But "cryptocurrencies" like Bitcoin might stand to change the rules in their favor.

Nathan Schneider | Apr 15, 2014

Anti corruption rally in India. Photo by Ishan Khosla.

Democracy

India's Own "Occupy": How a New Political Party is Battling Corruption—and Winning

A few months ago, India's Aam Aadmi Party was a curiosity; now, it’s a call for pro-democracy movements elsewhere to step up their game.

Nathan Schneider | Jan 23, 2014

Emma Goldman street art. Photo by Dr. Case.

Democracy

Why the Government Shutdown Is Not Anarchist Utopia

Real anarchists aren't just for abolition of the state. They're for a society in which ordinary people can freely and democratically govern themselves.

Nathan Schneider | Oct 4, 2013

Issues

Change Now, Vote Later

Political answers will come when we build a network of solidarity and action that pushes on all fronts for a true democracy.

Nathan Schneider | Feb 29, 2012

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