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Labor

How Bosses Use “Open Shop” Campaigns to Crush Unions

Shaun Richman

Rural America

How We Use Land in the United States and How That Has Changed

Daniel Bigelow

Viewpoint

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.

To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Worried About Russian Foreign Interference? Take a Look Into Saudi Arabia.

For decades, the D.C. establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

What We Got Wrong When Covering the Bill Clinton Sexual Abuse Allegations

In this #MeToo moment, looking back at our coverage.

Jessica Stites

Feature

The GOP Tax Bill Is Basically Like Throwing Gasoline On The Dumpster Fire That Is the Climate Crisis

The latest Republican scheme isn’t just bad news for the economy, it will be terrible for the environment.

Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

Alaska Grassroots Alliance Aim To Melt GOP’s Cold Cold Heart

Armed with hot cocoa and a smile, these progressives have spent all year protesting Trump-era policies.

Yereth Rosen

Rural America

A Big Farm Can Be Sustainable…But Only if It’s Managed Like a Collection of Small Farms

John Ikerd

Feature

A Newly Elected Democratic Socialist On How to Win in Trump Country

Ross Grooters explains how he won a city council seat as an open socialist in Pleasant Hill, Iowa—which last year went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Isaiah J. Poole, People's Action

Dispatch

Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air

Meet the tree-sitters fighting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline.

Jen Deerinwater

Culture

Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age

The creator of The Queen of Versailles on the “hamster wheel of wanting more and more.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry

Julianne Tveten

Rural America

Why Didn’t We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy

Rural America In These Times

Culture

Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up

A primer on the solidarity economy.

Dayton Martindale

Feature

The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”

A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Fascism in the United States Can’t Be Defeated Without a Mass Movement

A broad-front approach means drawing from a range of social movements—all those harmed by the reactionary right.

Shane Burley

Culture

Viewing the USSR Through Red-Tinted Glasses

The writings of Svetlana Alexievich cut through the fog of propaganda surrounding the Soviet Union.

Jane Miller

Feature

After the Keystone XL Approval, Here’s What’s Next for the Climate Movement

The battle is far from over—and has already transformed the way environmental campaigns are waged.

Kate Aronoff