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Labor

What’s Worse Than Airline Food? The Catering Companies Selling It.

s.e.smith

Rural America

Foreign Control of U.S. Farmland has Recently Doubled, And the USDA Doesn’t Know Who Owns What

Johnathan Hettinger

Labor

Robert Reich: Trump and the GOP’s New Tax Plan Is a Giant Gift to the 1%

Robert Reich

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Puerto Rico’s Isolated Mountain Communities Are Rapidly Running Out of Food And Water

The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

Eliván Martínez Mercado

Labor

The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

If the Left Wants to Win Elections, It Should Heed the Lessons of This Progressive Third Party

Left groups engaging in electoral politics today can learn from the trials, errors and successes of the Working Families Party.

Sam Lewis and Luke Elliott-Negri

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The Anti-Trump Resistance Must Not Fall Into the “Good” Vs. “Bad” Immigrant Trap

With renewed focus on the DREAM Act it's important that any immigration reform benefit all undocumented people.

Organized Communities Against Deportations

Dispatch

When Green Jobs Come at the Expense of Unions

A declining Rust Belt town turned to wind power—and away from organized labor.

Yana Kunichoff

Rural America

A Rural Progressive Platform: To Fix Stuff Democrats Have to Stop Being Stupid

Anthony Flaccavento

Feature

The Movement for Single Payer Has Transformed the Healthcare Fight. The CNN Debate Was Proof.

During CNN’s Monday night debate about the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that progressives have set the terms of discussion.

Theo Anderson

Feature

How Puerto Rico Recovered Before

The island's New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

The Unlikely Alliance That Could Stop Keystone and Transform the Democratic Party

Natives and ranchers are teaming up to save their water and land from corporate takeover.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

Opponents of School Privatization Are Very Worried About a New Law in Illinois. Here’s Why.

Kari Lydersen

Feature

“These Disasters Aren’t Natural Anymore”: A Dispatch from Puerto Rico After Maria

A conversation with Xiomara Caro Diaz of the Center for Popular Democracy about the devastation wrought by climate change and austerity.

Kate Aronoff

Rural America

The National Organic Program Is Getting a New Boss, Here’s Why That’s Long Overdue

The Cornucopia Institute

Feature

Lyin’ Ted Is Still Standing—But This Democrat Has a Bold Plan To Topple Him

Rep. Beto O’Rourke is aiming to topple Ted Cruz and pursue a progressive agenda in Texas.

Theo Anderson

Feature

Want Proof that Corporate Money Influences Politicians? This New Study Has It.

It really is no coincidence that the members of Congress who receive the most money from Wall Street are also the most hands-off on regulating it.

Charles Austin

Labor

“Right to Work” Doesn’t Have to Mean Defeat for Labor. These Nurses Prove Workers Can Still Win.

James Walker