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Progressives Have Won the Battle to Redefine What an “Establishment Candidate” Is

Recent elections show that in 2018, centrists no longer reign supreme.

Sean McElwee

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What We Can Learn From How Laura Moser Made the Democratic Establishment Sweat

After her campaign was torpedoed by the DCCC, Moser gave the establishment's preferred candidate a run for her money.

Branko Marcetic

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Illinois Bill Would Allow Cops to Spy on Protesters Using Drones With Facial-Recognition Technology

Putting this new surveillance power in the hands of police would threaten the most basic right to assemble.

Matthew McLoughlin

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Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry?

Here's why climate justice campaigners protested the big bank's shareholder meeting last week.

Kate Aronoff

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YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.

Toshio Meronek

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The Never-Ending Nakba

Israel mass-expelled Palestinians from their lands in 1948. The displacement hasn't stopped since.

Rahul Saksena

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The Only Explanation for Why the NRA Has Chosen Oliver North as its New President

The selection of North, a known war criminal, shows that the NRA is fully embracing its role as an extremist right-wing organization.

Branko Marcetic

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Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment

On Tuesday, insurgent challengers beat out their opponents in races across the country by running on bold left platforms.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Palestinians Are Forcing the World to See Their Humanity

The Gaza massacre is a war crime. And the United States is complicit alongside Israel.

Phyllis Bennis

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Watch This Palestinian-American Woman Crush Every Media Trope About the Gaza Protests

Noura Erakat delivers a much-needed corrective to dehumanizing U.S. media spin.

Sarah Lazare

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As Israel Kills Dozens, Gazans Continue to Protest. A Palestinian Woman Explains Why.

"This is a revolution of refugees," says Intimaa Alsdudi.

Alex Kane

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A Democratic Spring: 12 Left Challengers Taking On the Party Establishment in 2018

The scattering of challenges to the Democratic establishment after Bernie Sanders’ run has become a tidal wave.

Theo Anderson

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This Mother’s Day, Mexican Moms Marched for Their Disappeared Children

Mothers are demanding the return of their missing children—and charging the Mexican state with culpability.

Chantal Flores

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It’s Time for a Public Option in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Drug companies are hated for a reason—they exist to maximize profits, not make us healthier. It’s time to put them under public control.

Dana Brown and Thomas M. Hanna

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Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork

In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless.

Dayton Martindale

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How Russia-Obsessed Democrats Set the Stage for Trump’s Disastrous Violation of the Iran Deal

Leading Democrats have bundled their push for a tough stance on Russia with escalation towards Iran.

Michael Arria and Sarah Lazare

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What the Deployment of Green Berets to the Saudi-Yemen Border Tells Us About America’s Dirty War

The U.S. tries to distance itself from Saudi war crimes in Yemen—but it's always been America's war too.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

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Congress Wants to Give Trump a Bipartisan Blank Check for Declaring War

Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.

Danny Sjursen

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How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People

For six years, Seattle activists battled with policymakers who are pushing for a costly new youth jail and court project.

Dean Spade

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The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump

A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.

Sarah Lazare

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The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit

How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.

Stephen Franklin et al.

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Lead Is a National Crisis: We Need to Fight for Clean, Publicly Owned Water Before It Is Too Late

Four years after the Flint water crisis began, our nation remains plagued by unsafe drinking water. The solution is a massive public investment in infrastructure.

Rep. Keith Ellison and Wenonah Hauter

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Jeremy Corbyn Spent Passover With a Group of Socialist Jews. Here’s Why I’m Not Insulted.

How dare the world decide for us who's a proper Jew.

Jane Miller

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Scott Pruitt’s Real Scandal Is Helping Turn the U.S. Into a Full-Fledged Petrostate

The EPA chief isn’t just corrupt—he believes the role of government is to help the fossil fuel industry maximize profits.

Kate Aronoff