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ViewpointElection 2024

Democracy Despises a Coronation

Let the DNC be a battle. It's healthy. We'll kick Trump's ass on the other side.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointClimate

Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight Back Against Industrial Pollution

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

The Farmers Who Can’t Afford Farms

Thirty-eight percent of young farmers—including 62% of young Black farmers—have student debt, which can make it impossible to take on farm loans.

Joseph Bullington

Housing

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt

Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names.

Heba Gowayed

ViewpointPalestine

The Grave Cost of Funding Israel's War Machine

To end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, cold, hard calculations about war spending versus domestic programs could have greater resonance in an election year.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate

The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.

Alberto Toscano

LaborViewpointPalestine

Why Is the UAW’s Federal Monitor Involving Himself in the Union’s Stance on Gaza?

The monitor tasked with overseeing the union’s compliance with a federal consent decree is inappropriately challenging the union’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Andy Levin and Sanjukta Paul

Culture

Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests

I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.

Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain

Viewpoint

The Devastatingly Simple Answer to Why Cori Bush Lost

Wealthy pro-Israel donors drove Rep. Cori Bush out of office because she thinks Palestinians’ lives matter.

Ben Burgis

ViewpointElection 2024

The GOP Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

From NatCon to the RNC, Republicans are dropping the pretense of religious pluralism to go all in on Christian Nationalism.

Annika Brockschmidt

ViewpointElection 2024

The Left Are the Adults in the Room

Progressives have earned the party's ear at the Democratic National Convention—here's how to use it.

Osita Nwanevu

Housing

A National Tenants Union Has Arrived

Local tenants unions are officially teaming up, to the terror of big landlords.

Rebecca Burns

LaborFeature

The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It

“We can win more together than we can on our own.”

Sarah Jaffe

LaborElection 2024

The Labor Movement Is Giddy About Tim Walz Becoming Harris’ VP Pick

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been a strong supporter of unions and workers’ rights. Labor leaders see his elevation as a signal that Democrats are serious about empowering the working class.

Mindy Isser

ViewpointElection 2024

Trump, Vance and the Right-Wing Counter-Revolutionaries

The Right’s perennial call for ​“order” doesn’t necessarily mean affirming the existing order.

Matt McManus

LaborInterview

Debt Is Wage Theft, Debt Steals Leisure Time, Debt Can Suppress Strikes: Debt Is a Labor Issue

A conversation with organizers across industries on how debt shapes the fight for worker power.

Jason Wozniak, Sara Nelson, Brittany Alston, Olivia Schwob, Jackson Potter and Teresa Romero

ViewpointElection 2024

Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Claims on Healthcare Aren’t Just Xenophobic—They’re False

Far from draining the nation’s healthcare coffers, immigrants are actually shoring them up. But that reality is inconvenient for Republicans.

Adam Gaffney