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Labor

Students at the Most Expensive University in America Are Going on Tuition Strike

With an $11 billion endowment, Columbia University has been fleecing students during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back.

Indigo Olivier

Feature

After Sweeping Statewide Races, DSA Aims to Put a Socialist Caucus on New York’s City Council

Through democratic, grassroots-powered campaigns and an army of volunteers, socialists are flexing their muscle to bring a left-wing policy agenda to New York City.

Annie Levin

Culture

The Violent Story of American Whiteness

Three writers dive into the depths of white supremacy in America, from alt-right dating sites to the neo-Nazi movement to protect Confederate monuments.

Kim Kelly

Feature

Congress Is Deadlocked on Covid Relief But Came Together to Fund the Pentagon for $740 Billion

There is always money for war.

Sarah Lazare

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Immigrants Detained by ICE Say They Were Thrown in Solitary for Requesting Covid-19 Tests

During an outbreak at Etowah County Detention Center, immigrants say solitary confinement was also used as medical isolation, against ICE guidelines.

Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven

Labor

“This Strike Is a Fight for Our Lives”: Healthcare Workers Are Walking Off the Job to Demand Pandemic Protections

In Chicago and across the country, a wave of strikes by nursing home aides and other healthcare workers is showing that collective action is necessary for survival.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Treating the Traumas of Capitalism: Inside the Life of a Social Worker

A conversation with Michele Manco, a clinical social worker in the Bronx.

Maximillian Alvarez

Feature

12 Reasons Why Sex Ed Reform Cannot Wait

Less than half of U.S. schools offer sex education that is medically accurate.

Ria Bhagwat

Labor

The Great Black Radical You've Never Heard Of

Militant labor organizer Ben Fletcher, in his own words.

Peter Cole

LaborInvestigationGoodman Institute

Healthcare Workers Are Organizing Like Their Lives Depend On It

Faced with ongoing PPE shortages and employer obfuscation about deadly outbreaks, more hospital staff are seeing on-the-job solidarity as essential work.

Alice Herman

Labor

How the Battle in Seattle Changed Everything

In 1999, a coalition of union leaders, environmental activists and anti-capitalists took on the World Trade Organization and ushered in the 21st century for the U.S. Left.

David Moberg

Dispatch

Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal

Amid devastating hurricanes, oil spills and refinery fires, the Gulf South pushes for a Green New Deal that will meet its needs.

Casey Williams

ViewpointRural America

On Environment, Biden Needs to Do a Lot More than Roll Back the Rollbacks

President Trump gutted almost 100 environmental protections. Here’s a list of the ones Biden should undo first and why he must not stop there.

Jonathan Thompson

Labor

The Man Building the Bridge Between Labor Rights and Criminal Justice Reform

Jose Garza, the new District Attorney in Austin, is the face of progressive power in Texas.

Hamilton Nolan

DispatchClimate

The Climate Movement’s Reckoning with Black Lives Matter

For far too long, the climate movement has ignored the needs of the people most impacted by the climate crisis. That's changing.

Camille Williams

Feature

Biden's Foreign Policy Picks Are From the Hawkish National Security Blob. That Is a Bad Sign.

Biden's incoming team helped shape some of the most militaristic policies of the Obama administration.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

As Covid Surges, Doctors Are Striking Against "Retail Health"

A conversation with Dr. Amir Atabeygi, a physician at MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care in Thurston County, Washington.

Maximillian Alvarez

Climate

Biden Can't Reach His Own Climate Goals Without Banning Fracking

Trump tried—and failed—to ride fears about a fracking ban to a second term. Now Biden needs to confront fossil fuels.

Wenonah Hauter