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It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage

Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death.

Cortney Lamar Charleston

ViewpointPalestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

Labor

The Race Against the Clock to a Workplace Heat Rule

The November election could make or break a draft federal heat protection. Workers' lives hang in the balance.

Isabel Ashford Arya

DispatchCulture

Mutual Aid and Mosh Pits

Punks are stepping up for their communities—one show at a time.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

ViewpointCulture

Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand

Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s ​“heroin chic” to shame.

Tee Noir

LaborViewpointClimate

The Search for Green Common Ground

A capitalist transition to electric cars pits auto workers, transit riders and frontline communities against each other. What happens when they sit down together?

Emmett Hopkins

Viewpoint

A Fascist Specter Is Haunting America

Electoral appeals to the American worker are fueling racism against immigrants.

Alberto Toscano

LaborPodcast

The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On

The national chain, widely known as “Your Neighborhood Grocery Store,” continues engaging in unfair labor practices and fighting against workers’ unionization.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Louisiana’s CRT Ban Continues the Long History Suppressing Black Education

Throughout history, those in power have labeled antiracist pedagogy and the education of Black people as dangerous and inflammatory.

Jesse Hagopian

ViewpointPalestine

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Jesse Hagopian

Labor

Unions Are Hot—Just Ask the Chippendales

We talked with the husband-and-husband team that helped lead a groundbreaking union drive.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement

Investors are snapping up homes in the South Shore neighborhood, but a new tenants union is fighting back.

Fran Quigley

ViewpointElection 2024

The Warning Signs for Kamala Harris's Campaign Are Flashing Red

With only weeks left until Election Day, Harris can go from underdog to frontrunner by winning over working-class and anti-war voters.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Viewpoint

Jews and Democrats Are Not Sending Hurricanes to Kill Trump Supporters

How climate change conspiracy theories are shifting attention from systemic causes to convenient scapegoats.

Shane Burley

Culture

We Caught Up with Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen to Talk About Their Sonic World Building

With summer festival season behind them, musicians Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen look ahead.

DMB (D-M Brown)

LaborViewpoint

Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy

Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize and other benefits for workers. 

Paul Sonn

PalestineElection 2024

Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond

A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.

Nashwa Bawab

ViewpointPalestine

School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.

Bill Bigelow