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Lessons for Today’s Social Movements from Gandhi’s Salt March

At the time of Mohandas Gandhi's salt satyagraha, he was accused of a major strategic blunder. But the action was actually hugely successful—and offers lessons for movements today.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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Fracking to Cure Breast Cancer

Why is the Susan G. Komen Foundation partnering with a major fossil fuels company?

David Sirota

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Dear White People’s Missed Opportunities

The film gives a view of the wide range of black identities, but can't seem to tell a story beyond them about the nature of power in our "post-racial" society.

Michael Collins

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A ‘Post-Political’ Labor Movement

Stanley Aronowitz on how the labor movement falters and how it might recover.

David Moberg

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Can Climate Change Unite the Left?

To avoid catastrophe, we must seize corporate polluters' wealth. And to do that, we must change everything.

Naomi Klein

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As Ferguson ‘Weekend of Resistance’ Begins, Organizers Weigh How to Turn a Moment into a Movement

With thousands descending on Ferguson today to demand justice for Michael Brown, a creator of #BlackLivesMatter thinks now may be the time to win long-term victories.

Julia Wong

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Big Brother Is Watching You—Through Your Metadata

Your personal information may seem to be anonymous, but it isn't.

David Sirota

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Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It’s Good Economics

The median net worth of white families is 9.5 times more than Hispanic families and 12 times more than black families. And the gap has scarcely narrowed in half a century.

Solana Rice and Lillian Singh

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Home Care in Crisis

Everyone agrees the answer to the critical shortage of caregivers is good jobs. But how do we get there?

Kathryn Joyce

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Jesse Jackson Keeps Pushing

30 years after his first presidential run, Jackson talks Obama, Civil Rights and the black vote.

Joel Bleifuss

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Economic Inequality is Much Worse Than Most Americans Believe

According to a recent study, most of us severely underestimate just how bad the gap between the rich and the rest of us have gotten.

David Sirota

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Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great

Progressives should admit it: We like abortion.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course

Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.

Noam Chomsky

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Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Chicago's notorious former police commander is released from prison. A human rights lawyer representing police torture victims responds.

Flint Taylor

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White Politicians Still Run the Show in Heavily-Black Towns

Large numbers of African Americans are moving into towns and suburbs, yet their representation in the political system remains weak.

Terrell Jermaine Starr, Alternet

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7 Politicians Who Are Actually Talking About Inequality

A few lone voices in Congress are putting economic populism front and center.

David Moberg

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It’s the Inequality, Stupid

How to frame the 'defining challenge of our time.'

David Moberg

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Failing the Midterms

The Democrats can't win by cutting class.

Chris Lehmann

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Hedge Funds: Fantastic for Wall Street, Horrible for Your Pension

Private equity and hedge funds constantly lose money. So why are taxpayers' money being poured into them?

David Sirota

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Senate Republicans Unanimously Oppose Ending One Percenters’ Control of Elections

The GOP says yet again that control of our political system by the ultra-rich is just fine, thank you.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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Who Killed Adulthood?

Feminism stands wrongly accused.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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From Watts to Ferguson

The riot is still 'the language of the unheard.'

Rick Perlstein

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Hundreds of Thousands of Climate Marchers Make History

Sunday's climate change protest in New York was bigger than the 1963 March on Washington. What's next?

Cole Stangler

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Naomi Klein’s New Book Is a Manual for a Movement

This Changes Everything argues that only grassroots movements, not politicians or the 1%, can prevent climate disaster.

Cole Stangler