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Labor
When Sex Workers Do the Labor of Therapists
Carrie Weisman
Labor
What It Will Take to Build Union Support for the Green New Deal—Despite the AFL-CIO
Sarah Lazare
Labor
Your Favorite Podcast May Soon Be Union as Gimlet Media Becomes First in the Industry to Organize
Julianne Tveten
Dispatch
Tiffany Cabán—A Queer, Millennial, DSA-Backed Latina—Has Made History in Queens
Meet Tiffany Cabán, the 31-year-old queer Latina public defender who earned Queens DSA’s endorsement.
Douglas Grant
Feature
When Former Prosecutors Rebrand Themselves as Progressives to Win Elections
From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.
Victoria Law
Feature
The Private Prison Divestment Movement Just Had an Incredible Week
Activists are stopping banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo from financing the caging of migrant children. Here’s how.
David Dayen
Dispatch
Indigenous Organizers Halted Plans for Oil Drilling in the Amazon
Sustained demonstrations in Ecuador got the government to back down—at least for now.
Kimberley Brown
Labor
Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack on Democracy. The Teachers Strikes Show Why.
Jeremy Mohler
Viewpoint
Rashida Tlaib: Impeach Trump Now
Every day that we don’t address corruption, we are setting a precedent and eroding our democracy.
Rashida Tlaib
Labor
Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change
Nato Green
Culture
Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future?
Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue in a new book that megacorporations—although odious—demonstrate the massive central planning we need.
Peter Frase
Viewpoint
A Call for Clear Heads on Venezuela: How To Criticize Maduro While Opposing U.S. Regime Change
Working-class Venezuelans have long pushed the chavista government for greater democracy and justice—without ceding ground to the right-wing opposition.
Alejandro Velasco
Culture
Street Art Used To Be the Voice of the People. Now It’s the Voice of Advertisers.
Corporations like Red Bull and Stella Artois are co-opting graffiti art.
Christine MacDonald
Labor
Sherrod Brown Is Out for 2020, But the Fight for Workers’ Rights Is Not
Kelly Candaele
Feature
Young Black Feminists Have Some Pointers for Obama
Instead of scolding Black youth, Assata's Daughters is helping them organize to transform the world.
Eli Day
Labor
Will 2020 Be the Year Presidential Candidates Actually Take Labor Issues Seriously?
David Goodner
Feature
Another Failed Coup in Venezuela?
The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots.
George Ciccariello-Maher
Feature
Why Is Dianne Feinstein So Opposed to the Green New Deal? Look at Her Family Finances.
Sen. Feinstein has direct financial interests in the same fossil fuel companies that the Green New Deal threatens.
Branko Marcetic
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