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The Media Must Face Up to Its Role in Inflaming a Frenzy Over Russiagate

By claiming Trump was colluding with Putin, media outlets distracted from the president’s overt crimes while escalating tensions with Russia. They should own up to their failures.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

We Won Sick Days at Macy’s—And We Did It With Style

Nichole Booker and Curtisy Bryant

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Both Chicago Mayoral Candidates Claim to Be Progressive. Here’s a Close Look Into Their Records.

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have each run under the “progressive” mantle. Yet their records—and conversations with movement organizers—tell a more complicated story.

Camille Erickson

Labor

Labor Law Doesn’t Apply If You’re in Prison

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard

Dispatch

Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants

Without a Social Security number and U.S.-issued photo ID, you can’t get basic utilities in cities across the South.

Allison Salerno

Labor

A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention

Heather Gies

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Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker

There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.

Roland Paulsen

Feature

A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death

On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations.

Roqayah Chamseddine

Labor

Illinois Manufacturing Workers Locked Out and Fired for One-Hour Strike

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Culture

Black Women, Let Your Anger Out

Chronic stress is killing us. We can’t keep repressing our rage.

Joshunda Sanders

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As War on Yemen Hits the 4-Year Mark, Here’s a Brief History of U.S. Involvement

As the political tide in the United States finally turns against the war, we must not let its U.S. proponents whitewash their wrongdoing.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Viewpoint

Beto O’Rourke Swings and Misses with Working-Class Michigan Voters

O’Rourke’s tabletop tour can’t hide his problematic record on workers’ rights.

Valerie Vande Panne

Viewpoint

Trump Wants To Make the 2020 Election All About Socialism. Yes, Let’s.

The Right is trying to redbait—but it will backfire.

Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

Inside the Democratic Socialists of America’s Big Decision To Endorse Bernie Sanders

10,000 members voted “yes” in an endorsement poll, outnumbering “nos” 3 to 1, but the debate continues.

Emma Whitford

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“UC for the Many, Not the Few”: Solidarity on the California Picket Lines, In Photos

Thanks to thousands of solidarity strikers, this was the largest strike of 2019.

Brooke Anderson

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Climate Change. War. Poverty. How the U.S.-China Relationship Will Shape Humanity’s Path.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation.

Calvin Cheung-Miaw and Max Elbaum

Feature

The Case for Opening Our Borders

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

Brianna Rennix

Labor

“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank