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Telling Cops to Get Criminal Justice Degrees Won’t End Police Violence
The field of criminal justice is itself part of the problem.
Ash Stephens
Labor
These Workers Don’t Get Aid and Are Going Hungry. A Tax on New York Billionaires Could Help Them.
Rebecca Chowdhury
Labor
Police Union Denies Racism, Calls AFL-CIO President “Disgraceful” in Irate Letter
Hamilton Nolan
Culture
Your White Neighbor’s “Black Lives Matter” Yard Sign Is Not Enough
Being anti-racist means making places safe for Black people to inhabit. Without that, BLM yard signs are just performative allyship.
Shayla Lawson
Labor
Weed That’s Legal and Union: Marijuana Dispensary Becomes First in Illinois to Unionize
Jeff Schuhrke
Culture
Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance
What art looks like in isolation
Diana Babineau
Rural America
Global Agribusiness is Devouring the World’s Last Forests. We Need Local Food Systems, Now.
Gaurav Madan
Labor
How an Old-School Electricians Union Got Behind a Socialist Running on the Green New Deal
Mindy Isser
Feature
First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You’re Praised for Sending in Aid.
The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
The Head of the South Dakota AFL-CIO Routinely Posts Ultra Right-Wing Memes on Facebook
Hamilton Nolan
Viewpoint
The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real
Jamaal Bowman and other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left wing is a force to be reckoned with.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Viewpoint
Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper Are One and The Same
Bogus allegations waged by white women are just as dangerous as police brutality—and come from the same callous privilege.
Chandra Thomas Whitfield
Rural America
Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent
Stephanie Woodard
Labor
Unpaid Prison Barber Made to Work During Covid Says, “We Aren’t Properly Disinfecting Anything”
Ella Fassler
Viewpoint
In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People
Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.
Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer
Viewpoint
The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd
Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.
Salim Muwakkil
Labor
AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers
Hamilton Nolan
Feature
It’s Not Just Covid That Has Hondurans Starving. It’s Also U.S. Policy.
On the roots of the Honduran hunger crisis.
Meghan Krausch
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