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It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation
Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.
James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman
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What the Liberal Establishment Gets Wrong About the Trump-Putin Summit
Charges of treason and other reactionary rhetoric build support for a more confrontational—and dangerous—stance towards Russia.
Branko Marcetic
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Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In
The U.S. is slamming the door on people forcibly displaced by American interventions.
Khury Peterson-Smith
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How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace
To overcome right to work, we need rights at work.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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Runaway Empire: Last Year, U.S. Commandos Were Deployed to 75% of World’s Countries
American Special Operations Forces are expanding globally.
Nick Turse
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Bernie Sanders on Labor’s Future and Why Democratic Socialists Keep Winning
An exclusive interview with Sen. Sanders on how labor can respond to Janus, the fight to move the Democratic Party left and the growing popularity of democratic socialism.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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California Democrats Just Stunned Dianne Feinstein By Endorsing Her Left Challenger
On Saturday, the California Democratic Party overwhelmingly backed progressive Senate candidate Kevin de Leon over incumbent Dianne Feinstein, the latest sign yet of a tectonic shift toward the party's left flank.
Theo Anderson
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After Janus, How to Tilt the Balance of Power Back to Workers
There’s a simple fix to Janus’s “free-rider” problem.
Jessica Stites and Aaron Tang
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The NATO Summit Wasn’t a Victory for Trump—It Was a Victory for Militarism
Major media outlets are so focused on Russiagate they are missing the dangerous international military buildup taking place.
Branko Marcetic
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I Couldn’t Help But Wonder…Is Democratic Socialism Catching On?
Sex and the City star and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is now a democratic socialist.
Kate Aronoff
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Amazon Is One Step Closer To Taking a Cut on Literally Every Economic Transaction
In a $5.5 billion sweetheart deal, Amazon has inserted itself between local businesses and local governments.
David Dayen
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Scott Pruitt’s Replacement at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, Could Be Even Worse
Wheeler might be able to navigate his way around the agency more effectively than Pruitt—and therefore do more damage.
Kate Aronoff
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Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?
We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.
Angie Schmitt
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Tammy Duckworth Seems To Have Forgotten That Not All Midwesterners Are White
Duckworth said that while left politics are popular in the Bronx, they can't win in the Midwest. She's wrong in more ways than one.
Eli Day
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What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE
Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.
Sarah Lazare
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Emma Goldman: A New Declaration of Independence
In an essay published in July 1909 in Mother Earth, Goldman—a lifelong radical—reminds readers that all humans were created equal.
Emma Goldman
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Eugene Debs: The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World
In an Independence Day speech in 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs declared: "I like the 4th of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution. On this day we reaffirm the ultimate triumph of Socialism. It is coming as certain as I stand in your presence."
Eugene Debs
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As We Celebrate “Independence,” Remember That the U.S. Left Its Colony Puerto Rico to Die
The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were made by inequalities of race, income and access to U.S. political power.
Basav Sen
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Calls to Abolish ICE Were Everywhere at the Massive March Against Immigrant Family Detention
As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.
Grace Dixon
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The Left Just Won Big in Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador won on a promise to reverse the disastrous policies of privatization and rampant corruption that have dominated Mexican politics for decades.
Jeff Abbott
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How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions
A union buster may be coming to your door.
Chris Brooks
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The Biggest Lesson from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Win? Run on Democratic Socialism.
The 28-year-old Latina scored the biggest upset of 2018 by rejecting Democratic Party orthodoxy and running on a laser-focused message of economic justice. If other candidates want to win, they should follow her lead.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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How the Left Can Seize the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has become a political body, and after the announcement of Justice Kennedy’s retirement, it’s up to the Democrats to take it back. Here’s how.
Marc Daalder
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The Root Cause of the Immigration Crisis: The West’s Legacy of Violent Conquest
The Trump administration's cruel policies towards black and brown migrants stem from a long history.
James Thindwa
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