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The Problem With Israel’s Annexation Is Its Brutality, Not Its Optics

We need strong condemnation of Israel's annexation plans, not handwringing over bad P.R.

Sandra Tamari

Labor

A Mexican Labor Lawyer Denounced U.S. Pressure to Reopen Maquiladoras. Then She Was Jailed.

Maurizio Guerrero

Dispatch

The Church of Latter-Day Socialists

These Mormons are taking the church back to its socialist roots.

Nicholas Greyson Ward

Feature

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