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After Cornell Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism, its Graduate Student Union Fought Back

Members of Cornell's Graduate Student Union stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. candidate and student protestor who was suspended after pressuring the University to divest from Israel.

Maximillian Alvarez

Culture

"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"

Two poems on incarceration.

PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II

Election 2024

Trump's Planned Immigrant Purge Sends Stagnant Private Prison Stocks Soaring

"The GEO Group was built for this unique moment ... and the opportunity that it will bring," said the firm's chair.

Brett Wilkins

ViewpointElection 2024

What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class

The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.

Robert Reich

Election 2024

Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.

Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.

Silky Shah

Election 2024

7 States Just Enshrined Abortion Rights, as Possibility of a Federal Ban Looms

Many voters backed ballot measures to protect abortion, even as they elected a president who attacks abortion rights.

Lauren Rankin

Election 2024

Trump’s First Term Was Bad for Trans People. His Next Term Promises to Be Worse.

Here are six ways a second Trump administration may try to target trans people. We must organize our resistance now.

Lewis Raven Wallace

ViewpointElection 2024

Trump's Army of Social Vigilantes Are Coming for Payback

For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.

Maximillian Alvarez

DispatchCulture

Menopause in a Prison Cell

More women than ever are experiencing menopause behind bars—and facing barriers to care.

Kwaneta Harris

ViewpointElection 2024

The Rape Culture Election

Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”

Talia Lavin

ViewpointElection 2024

How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class

Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.

Jeff Schuhrke

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

ViewpointElection 2024

Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse

On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.

Adam Johnson

LaborViewpointElection 2024

Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Election 2024

Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth

Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.

Alberto Toscano

Culture

Poetry: Another Democracy is America's Experiment and I am Tired of History's Repetition

America, when you come for me, I’m coming with sound in the streets, with a murder of mothers murking their way through the mud.

Golden

Election 2024

After Trump Win, Bernie Sanders Blames Democrats for Abandoning Working People

"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," Sanders said.

Jessica Corbett

ViewpointElection 2024

Democrats Chose to Back a Genocide and Turn Right Over Defeating Trump

By refusing to budge on Palestine, Harris and the Democrats surrendered their moral advantage, forcing them to track right and alienate their base.

Adam Johnson