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Labor
Here’s Why These 3 Rank-And-File Union Members Are Running for Maryland Public Office
Bruce Vail
Labor
How Organizers in Rural North Carolina Plan To Build Working-Class Power in 2018
Sarah Jaffe
Rural America
The ANWR Drilling Conflict: Why “No Stable Compromise Exists”
Scott L. Montgomery
Feature
The “Me Too” Movement and the Rights of the Accused
Have the men and women accused of sexual harassment lost their right to a fair hearing?
Marilyn Katz
Rural America
Can the Community Rights Movement Fix Capitalism?
Thomas Linzey
Dispatch
Meet the Chicagoans Who Are Opening Their Homes to Abortion-Seekers
Right-wing lawmakers are restricting abortion access. These volunteers are expanding it.
Veronica Arreola
Labor
What #MeToo Can Teach the Labor Movement
Jane McAlevey
Culture
A Brief Case for Prison Abolition
We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete?
Dayton Martindale
Culture
The Uncolonized Mind: An Iraqi-American Artist Explores Memory, Star Wars and Bad Translations
Michael Rakowitz on his latest exhibition.
Tamara Nassar
Feature
The 10 Best Off-the-Beaten-Path Films of 2017
Film is dead. Long live these films.
Michael Atkinson
Labor
Why We Shouldn’t Fall for the Members-Only Unionism Trap
Chris Brooks
Rural America
Drain the Metaphor: Why the Media Needs to Rethink the Way It Talks About Swamps
Emeline Posner
Labor
This Florida Stealth Offensive Against Unions Could Preview GOP Onslaught in 2018
Michael Arria
Feature
J20 “Not Guilty” Verdict Deals Blow to Trump Admin and Shows the Power of Collective Defense
A defendant on why dissenters everywhere should feel emboldened by the outcome of the first trial.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
#MeToo In the Fields: Farmworkers Show Us How To Organize Against Sexual Violence
Sarah Lazare
Culture
Beyond Vibrator Feminism
Orgasms will not set us free.
Jessa Crispin
Labor
Is China’s Labor Federation Willing to Stand Up for Workers Against Walmart?
Bruce Vail
Feature
Should Progressives Support Soda Taxes?
Cities from Chicago to Philadelphia have experimented with a tax on sweetened beverages. Tom Philpott, Max B. Sawicky and Melina Packer debate the merits.
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