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The Class War Midterms

The legacy of Bernie Sanders’ presidential runs was on full display in Democrats’ titanic midterm election results. The message from voters is clear: deliver on economic populism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

“Sewer Socialism” is Ascendant in America’s Big Cities

As the next mayor of Washington, D.C., Janeese Lewis George will join other local leaders who say they’ll look to the public sector to help solve their cities’ housing crises.

Rebecca Burns

Politics

We Just Witnessed a Populist Blowout

In Tuesday's midterm elections, voters rejected Trump’s billionaire-backed politics and attacks on working people. The winners need to show that a different kind of politics can deliver.

Peter Certo

Politics

Organizing Beat Out Democratic Conventional Wisdom

Democrats’ sweeping victory in the midterms showed why the old playbook should be thrown out of the window—and that the Left is on the march.

Hamilton Nolan

PoliticsElection 2026

The Hour Before Dawn

With the Voting Rights Act gutted and education under attack, building democratic power must reach beyond the ballot box—and into classrooms and the streets

Jesse Hagopian

Labor

It’s Time for Labor to Join the Fight Against Data Centers and Tech Oligarchy

There’s no room for dithering—the U.S. labor movement has to choose now whether to be on the right side of history.

Stephen Lerner

Labor

Dockworkers Worldwide Are Striking for Palestine

The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins.

Peter Cole

A Gift From the President to the Cornell Seven

New comics from Mark Kaufman, Tom Tomorrow and Adam Zygis.

Tom Tomorrow, Adam Zygis and Mark Kaufman

ViewpointPolitics

Hispanic Voters Are Dissatisfied. What Will It Mean for the Midterms?

The question heading into the midterms is not whether Trump has lost support among Hispanic Americans—it is what dissatisfied Hispanic voters will do with that dissatisfaction.

Diana Orcés

Viewpoint

Against Efficiency

Making numbers go up isn’t compatible with human freedom. It’s time to flip the tables in how we determine progress.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

UFCW Members Protect Local Election After Sham Merger Attempt

Longtime incumbents in UFCW's Local 8-Golden State are being challenged by an insurgent slate in what may be the local’s first competitive election in decades.

Lisa Xu

With His Stunning Victory in Brazil, Lula Has Made History Again

Despite trailing far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of voting, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defied the odds and secured a fourth presidential term, but the road ahead will not be an easy one.

Andre Pagliarini

Interview

A Politics of Denial

As France erupts with protests and the U.S. midterm elections near, a declining West is answering its crisis with denial, repression and war.

Glenn Diesen and Richard D. Wolff

Viewpoint

The Crest of a New Wave

The incoming class of left-wing insurgents can hold sway in the next Congress—if they work as a bloc.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

FeatureHousing

The Urgency of Anti-Fascist Economics

In a new book, a dissident economist argues that to save democracy, we must democratize the economy.

Rebecca Burns

Housing

It’s the Rent, Actually

How historic housing unaffordability—and resurgent tenant organizing—are reshaping the midterm elections.

Rebecca Burns

Viewpoint

What the End of Amazon’s MTurk Tells Us About Today’s AI Race

Human labor fueled the rise of AI. It can also be used to halt it.

Krista Pawloski

Palestine

From the Green Line to the Yellow Line: A Story of Colonization in Palestine

A ceasefire was supposed to bring calm to a Gaza devastated by genocide. Instead, Israel not only continues to violate it, but now a "yellow line" has split Gaza in half and enabled even more violence.

Yousef Aljamal