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Labor

The Lesson From West Virginia Teachers? If You Want to Win, Go on Strike.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

Illinois Grad Students Are on Strike to Make the University Accessible for the Working Class

Rachel Johnson

Feature

Now Is America’s Chance To Stop Waging Brutal War on Yemen

A new bipartisan bill offers an opportunity to withdraw U.S. support for a devastating military onslaught.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Feature

First Silicon Valley Sold You Social Media. Now It’s Trying to Sell You the Antidote.

It turns out that selling solutions to problems created by the tech industry presents a tremendous business opportunity.

Julianne Tveten

Culture

A Brief Case for Guaranteed Housing

Why housing should be a human right.

Dayton Martindale

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