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Labor

YMCA Childcare Workers Just Went On Strike. Here’s Why.

Rebecca Burns

Rural America

What if Organic Standards Were Bioregional and Written by Real Organic Farmers?

John Ikerd

Feature

Landlords, Your Lease Is Up: A New Movement for Rent Control Is Spreading Across the U.S.

Tenant activists, local unions, community organizations and socialists are leading campaigns to regulate rents and weaken the market's grip on housing.

Rebecca Burns

Feature

It’s Never Been About the Second Amendment. It’s About Corporate Profits.

Our bought-and-paid-for politicians only hold the Constitution sacred when it aligns with corporate interests—like gun sales.

Leonard C. Goodman

Labor

West Virginia Teachers Are Now Out on a Wildcat Strike. The Labor Movement Should Follow Their Lead.

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture

The origins of the U.S. gun obsession lie in the violent dispossession of Native Americans.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Labor

Amid a Fast-Food Industry Plagued By Sexual Harassment, This Mother and Daughter Said “No More”

Bryce Covert

Labor

These Teachers Refuse to Be Weaponized

Michelle Chen

Viewpoint

Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle

From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.

Charles Cobb Jr.

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