"Hosting a fundraiser with Big Oil CEOs while we're still counting the bodies from Hurricane Helene is like hosting a fundraiser with the NRA in the midst of a school shooting.”
Edward Carver
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.
Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
Columnists
Feature
Wasteland Warriors
Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple
CultureDepartments
Freedom of Expression, Unless It’s Your Hair
J. Patrick Patterson
The High Stakes of Mapping the Midwest
How can a state continue to be deadlocked with a legislature controlled by Trumpian Republicans when it’s been busy electing not just Democrats but, in many cases, progressive Democrats?
John Nichols
Faux Populism Takes Center Stage at Vice-Presidential Debate
Tuesday’s debate offers Democrats a warning about how much more appealing Trumpism can be when presented in an equally mendacious but more competent way.
Akil Vicks
Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home
As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.
Sue Page
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Refaat Alareer
FeaturePalestineCulture
June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions
Sherell Barbee and June Jordan
ViewpointPalestine
"We Can’t Arrest Our Way to Liberation"
Eyad Zeid
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide
Ben Lorber
FeatureInvestigation
The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India
Makepeace Sitlhou
InvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español
Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente
Alessandra Bergamin
InvestigationGoodman Institute
The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders
Alessandra Bergamin
The union wave at big U.S. retailers hasn’t yet resulted in first contracts for workers at Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and REI. But unions are proving their value in other ways.
Jeremy Gantz
Translations
LaborViewpointEn Español
Presidente de la UAW: El Primero de Mayo De 2028 Podría Transformar el Movimiento Sindical—y el Mundo
Shawn Fain
FeaturePalestine
التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول
إيمان عبد الهادي
LaborFeatureEn Español
Una Semana Laboral De 32 Horas Es Nuestra Para Tomarla
Sarah Jaffe
ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Is Already Here
Gillian Kane
Dispatch
“Raid Happening Now”: Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University
Eman Abdelhadi
Culture
No, JoJo Siwa Did Not Invent Gay Pop
Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo
Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.
Alessandra Bergamin
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Adam Federman
Columnists
Labor
Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016
United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.
Alex Caputo-Pearl
Labor
The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café
Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.
Osita Nwanevu
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- Hundreds of Kansas City Tenants Will Strike to Demand Repairs, Rent Caps
Director Mohamed Kordofani discusses how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and reconciliation.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Culture
Punk Rock Karaoke
Bianca Xunise
PalestineCulture
The Protest Song the IDF Tried to Silence
Iman Husain
Rural America
Study: Because of Pesticides, Living in Farm Towns Is as Risky as Smoking
Shannon Kelleher
ViewpointClimateRural America
Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever
Peter Gelderloos
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