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Labor

Why These Immigrants Are Shutting Their City Down This May Day

Sarah Jaffe

Rural America

From Punk Rock to Ultramarathons, Diverse Economies Are Taking Shape in Coal Country

Nico Gendron

Feature

How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People

For six years, Seattle activists battled with policymakers who are pushing for a costly new youth jail and court project.

Dean Spade

Feature

The Historic Korean Peace Declaration Was Made Possible By Social Movements, Not Trump

A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit

How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.

Stephen Franklin et al.

Labor

University of Iowa Faculty Are Showing How Labor Can Organize Under Right-to-Work

Daniel Moattar

Feature

Lead Is a National Crisis: We Need to Fight for Clean, Publicly Owned Water Before It Is Too Late

Four years after the Flint water crisis began, our nation remains plagued by unsafe drinking water. The solution is a massive public investment in infrastructure.

Rep. Keith Ellison and Wenonah Hauter

Labor

Why Hundreds of Georgia Bus Drivers Just Staged a Massive Sickout

Casey Williams

Labor

Trump Is Using “Welfare” Dog Whistles to Come After the Entire Working Class

Rebecca Vallas, Talk Poverty

Labor

Arizona Teachers Are Out On the Largest Strike in State History. Here’s Why.

Sarah Lahm

Labor

Don’t Like War? Then Don’t Work! Remembering When Dockworkers Shut Down the Ports on May Day

Peter Cole

Feature

Jeremy Corbyn Spent Passover With a Group of Socialist Jews. Here’s Why I’m Not Insulted.

How dare the world decide for us who's a proper Jew.

Jane Miller

Labor

Arizona Teachers Are Prepared to Strike to Fix the Education Crisis Themselves

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Scott Pruitt’s Real Scandal Is Helping Turn the U.S. Into a Full-Fledged Petrostate

The EPA chief isn’t just corrupt—he believes the role of government is to help the fossil fuel industry maximize profits.

Kate Aronoff

Culture

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