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Universal Basic Income: A Primer

Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government.

Dayton Martindale

Labor

Nation’s Richest, Including Trump, Are About to Enjoy a $17 Billion Windfall Due to a Tax Loophole

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

Rural America

The Three “Great Separations” that Unravelled Our Connection to Earth and Each Other

John Ikerd

Dispatch

This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations.

A North Carolina sheriff’s office had a “pattern of racial profiling,” but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s ICE from inviting it into the 287(g) program.

Jordan Green

Labor

Toiling Over a “Puddle of Blood”: Why These Warehouse Workers Are Standing Up to Abuses

Mica Soellner

Feature

Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes

These are the corporations profiting from e-carceration.

James Kilgore

Dispatch

This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor

Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration

In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.

Dayton Martindale

Rural America

The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp

Winona LaDuke

Labor

Nearly 5,000 JetBlue Flight Attendants Just Voted To Unionize, in a Major Win for Airline Labor

Sarah Lahm

Labor

Rotten and Rat-Infested: The Appalling Food and Healthcare Conditions Facing Inmates in U.S. Prisons

Michelle Chen

Labor

Puerto Rico’s Major Newspapers Laid Off Reporters Just When the Island Needed Them the Most

Katherine Braden

Feature

Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change

From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.

Samuel Miller-McDonald

Rural America

The House Farm Bill Ignores What Farmers Want (and Farm Groups Call BS)

Karen Perry Stillerman

Labor

West Virginia Teachers and the Return of Labor Feminism

Rachel Johnson

Feature

Yaser Murtaja Was Killed by Israel While Reporting From Gaza. His Death Is One of Many.

Israel has a long-standing pattern of killing Palestinian journalists and attacking media institutions.

Alex Kane

Feature

The Zuckerberg Hearings Were a Show Trial, And Facebook’s Monopoly Remains Unthreatened

Despite public outrage, Congress is not taking meaningful steps to break the power of Facebook.

Julianne Tveten

Labor

The GOP Tax Plan Was Sold On a Baseless Theory. Now It’s Being Exposed As a Giveaway to the Rich.

Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair