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Labor

The Trump Admin’s Infrastructure Plan Doubles Down on a System That Doesn’t Work

Hunter Blair, Economic Policy Institute

Rural America

Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party

Thomas Linzey

Feature

How a Small City in Pennsylvania Became A White Nationalist Target

Energized by Trump, outright white supremacists are moving from the fringes into active roles in local Pennsylvania politics.

Michael Deibert

Culture

And the Oscar for Best Protest Goes To…

Awards show activism, then and now.

Joel Bleifuss

Viewpoint

We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up

Solutions rooted in policing and prisons just contribute to a culture of violence.

Daniel Denvir

Feature

What Italy’s “Potere al Popolo” Can Teach Us About Building a Popular Party of the Left

This party is rejecting the false choice between a Europe united under the misery of austerity, or one united under the horrors of racism and bigotry.

Valentina Dallona

Labor

3 Democratic Campaigns Now Have Staff Unions. Why Not More?

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

Why Progressives Need to Rethink the Rural-Urban Divide and Build a Coalition

Sarah van Gelder

Dispatch

Cooperative Banking for Black Lives

After facing decades of disinvestment and targeting by powerful financial institutions, African-American-owned credit unions could offer a way to build economic power and grow black wealth.

Valerie Vande Panne

Feature

Chicago’s Far South Side Is Finally Getting a Train—And It’s Thanks to Decades of Organizing

Residents hope the transit extension will shorten commutes and bring much-needed jobs.

Patrick Corley

Labor

5 Reasons Mexican Workers Would Cheer the Demise of NAFTA

Manuel Perez Rocha

Labor

West Virginia Teachers Are Showing How Unions Can Win Power Even If They Lose Janus

Lois Weiner

Rural America

With the USDA’s Blessing, CAFOs Are Driving Organic Dairy Farmers Out of Business

Jim Goodman

Feature

When It Comes to the Fake News Scourge, Russia Doesn’t Hold a Candle to U.S. Conservative Media

The panic over Russian interference obscures the fact that fake news has always been with us—it’s just been pushed by the American Right.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

While Democrats Call for Gun Control at Home, They Push Deadly Arms Deals Abroad

To seriously address the scourge of gun violence, we must oppose U.S. militarism around the globe. Many leading Democrats haven’t gotten the message.

Adam Johnson

Rural America

Standing Rock Felony Defendants Take Plea Deals, Still Face Years in Prison

Joseph Bullington

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions

The Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME is poised to decimate public-sector unions—and it’s been made possible by a network of right-wing billionaires, think tanks and corporations.

Mary Bottari

Feature

The FBI Questioned a Black Man About Racist Extremists in Charlottesville—Now He Could Go to Prison

Authorities are arresting and charging anti-racist demonstrators for events connected to the Unite the Right rally, even though it was white supremacists who unleashed violence on the town.

Michael Arria