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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

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Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes

These are the corporations profiting from e-carceration.

James Kilgore

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Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration

In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.

Dayton Martindale

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Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change

From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.

Samuel Miller-McDonald

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Yaser Murtaja Was Killed by Israel While Reporting From Gaza. His Death Is One of Many.

Israel has a long-standing pattern of killing Palestinian journalists and attacking media institutions.

Alex Kane

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The Zuckerberg Hearings Were a Show Trial, And Facebook’s Monopoly Remains Unthreatened

Despite public outrage, Congress is not taking meaningful steps to break the power of Facebook.

Julianne Tveten

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Senate Democrats Offer Little-to-No Opposition to Trump’s Expansion of Syria Bombings

Ninety-two percent of Senate Democrats and Independents failed to substantively dissent against Trump's April 13 airstrikes.

Sarah Lazare

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West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is

“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’”

Kate Aronoff

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Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election

And that may be the tip of the iceberg.

Simon Davis-Cohen and Sarah Lazare

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The Race to Replace Paul Ryan Says Everything About Party Politics in 2018

With Ryan out, Paul Nehlen, an open white supremacist, is the leading Republican, while Randy Bryce, a progressive populist, is running as a Democrat.

Kate Aronoff

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After U of Chicago Cop Shoots Undergrad, Students Say It’s Time to Defund and Disarm Campus Police

Police shot student Charles Thomas last week while he was in the grips of an apparent mental health crisis.

Alex V. Hernandez

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Trump Doesn’t Care About Civilian Deaths. Just Look at Yemen.

For three years, the United States has backed a brutal Saudi-led war on Yemen, and ordinary people are paying the price.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

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Bombs Aren’t the Answer: A Case for Vigorous Diplomacy in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen

The latest escalation in Syria underlines the need for political, not military, solutions.

Stephen R. Weissman

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We Must Stop John Bolton From Escalating War in Syria

Trump's threats to escalate military intervention could open a new, dangerous front in the ongoing conflict.

Phyllis Bennis

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan

Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check.

Dayton Martindale

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The DCCC’s Long, Ugly History of Sabotaging Progressives

The latest attacks on left challengers are no fluke: For decades the House Democratic fundraising body has put corporate, big-money interests first.

Branko Marcetic

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Progressives Have a Game Plan for Replacing the Chicago Machine

The March 20 Illinois primary saw big victories for progressive challengers taking on machine-backed candidates. It’s a model we can follow to transform Chicago politics.

Amisha Patel and Emma Tai

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This Hawaiian Lawmaker Fought Mark Zuckerberg Off Native Land. Now He’s Running for Congress.

DSA member Kaniela Ing is calling for 100 percent renewable energy, universal basic income and a jobs guarantee.

Kate Aronoff

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It Looks Like Bill Gates’ Devotion to Child Welfare Doesn’t Extend to Children in Yemen

The billionaire philanthropist is rolling out the red carpet for Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is overseeing the mass starvation and death of children in Yemen.

Sarah Lazare