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One Weird Trick to Slash Your City’s Police Budget Right Now
Los Angeles just announced the city is massively cutting its police budget. There has literally never been an easier—or better—time for other cities to follow suit.
Hamilton Nolan
Viewpoint
The “Outside Agitator” Is a Myth Used to Weaken Protest Movements
Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t fall for it.
Glenn Houlihan
Feature
Democratic Leaders’ Shamefully Tepid Response to Trump’s Threat of Military Crackdown on Protests
As Trump escalates his war on Black people, Democratic leadership offers mealy-mouthed platitudes.
Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson
Labor
DC Transit Union Says Labor Must Join the Movement in the Streets
Hamilton Nolan
Labor
The Miners Who Fought for Workplace Safety Have a Thing or Two to Teach OSHA Right Now
Austyn Gaffney
Viewpoint
The Focus on Looting Shows How Our Systems of Power Value Capital Over Human Lives
Rather than indicting the racist police murder of George Floyd and other black Americans, our leaders are up in arms over protests and property destruction. That’s the twisted logic of U.S. capitalism.
Eli Day
Labor
We’ll Burn Until We Organize
Hamilton Nolan
Feature
How to Make the Left More Attractive
A conversation with author and journalist, Michael Brooks.
Maximillian Alvarez
Viewpoint
How to Save the Restaurant Workforce From Being Casualties of The Covid-19 Crisis
In an interview, One Fair Wage President Saru Jayaraman explains that the post-Covid future offers two possible directions for restaurant workers—dignity or poverty.
Michelle Chen
Feature
Amid Minneapolis Uprising, Anti-War Veterans Call On National Guard to Stand Down
"We urge you to have the courage to do the right thing. Refuse activation orders."
Sarah Lazare
Labor
Major Public Defense Nonprofit in New York Is Unionizing
Hamilton Nolan
Feature
There’s Room for Solidarity Between the Working Class and Progressive Professionals
Max and his brother Zak talk about meritocracy, work in the corporate world, and that feeling in your gut that most of what you do is pointless.
Maximillian Alvarez
Labor
Fight Over Safe Reopening Is The Latest Front in “Civil War” at the EPA
Hamilton Nolan
Feature
Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with Covid-19
Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits.
Manuel Pérez-Rocha
Rural America
For Decades the U.S. Punished Indigenous Healers. Now the Indian Health Service Wants to Hire Them
Sydney Akridge
Labor
Philippine Call Center Workers Are in Danger. It’s Our Problem, Too.
Michael Galant
Viewpoint
Former Leaders of SDS, Meet the Current Members of DSA
The authors of "An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left" failed to grasp several things about the Democratic Socialists of America.
Joel Bleifuss
Feature
Fired from Dollar General for Speaking Out About Unsafe Conditions
A conversation with Daniel Stone, a former employee of Dollar General in Nashville
Maximillian Alvarez
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