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Four Steps to Transform the Pharmaceutical Industry and Survive the Pandemic

Dealing with the Covid crisis will require taking the profit motive out of our health systems. Here’s how.

Dana Brown and Christopher Morten

Viewpoint

How to Negotiate With People Who Don’t Care If You Die

To win another stimulus bill, the Democrats need to embrace chaos.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Problem Isn't That People Are Greedy—It's That They're Capitalist

Capitalism's ethos of “grow or die” comes at our expense.

Hadas Thier

Feature

Anti-War Veteran Is Furious Trump Is Twisting His Video Protesting Biden's Iraq War Record

Air Force veteran is demanding Trump stop sharing a dated video of him confronting Biden.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Time For Unions to Give the Democratic Party an Ultimatum

Money spent on organizing is always well spent. You can't say the same about political donations.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

This Labor Day, Let’s Remember Labor’s Forgotten Fight—Shorter Hours and Control Over Work Time

We’re working more for less. Instead, we should fight to work less for more.

Jamie K. McCallum

ViewpointRural America

Healthy Food Comes from Healthy Land, Not from Laboratories

Manufactured meat substitutes do nothing to restore the ecosystems and rural communities ravaged by industrial agriculture.

Will Harris

Police and Affordable Housing Collide in Charleston

The South's most picturesque city reckons with race and gentrification.

Patsy Newitt

Labor

A Brief History of the U.S. Government’s Targeting of Left-Wing Immigrants

Throughout U.S. history, right-wing forces have used the denial of citizenship to restrict political dissent.

Shaun Richman

LaborClimate

Why Every Job in the Renewable Energy Industry Must Be a Union Job

We need millions of union jobs that are good for both workers and the climate.

Mindy Isser

Feature

Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They're Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.

President Trump's surprise eviction moratorium is an election hail-mary. But to stave off a disastrous housing crisis, organizers say Democrats—including Joe Biden—must embrace bolder measures.

Rebecca Burns

Viewpoint

Trump Is Inciting Racist Violence in Kenosha—And Democrats Are Complicit

Democrats are failing to articulate a clear moral vision that is opposed to Trump’s ultra-racist, law-and-order politics.

Alice Herman and Emilio Leanza

Labor

In California, a “Labor Slate” Aims to Redefine the Relationship Between Unions and Politics

From union jobs to Medicare for All, this new pro-worker slate is pushing a progressive platform—and could become a model for how organized labor approaches elections.

Hamilton Nolan