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Labor

Is Guatemala the Next Uber Frontier? Taxi Drivers Say ‘Hell No’

Jeff Abbott

Viewpoint

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels

The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.

Joel Bleifuss

Culture

Sorry, Tories: Jeremy Corbyn’s Success Is a Win for the Anti-Austerity Movement

British progressives have a long fight ahead. But for now, we're breathing a collective sigh of relief.

Jane Miller

Labor

Understanding the Existential Threat Trump Poses to a Beleaguered Labor Movement

Barry Eidlin

Feature

Why Disabled People Are Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Protest Healthcare Cuts

A conversation with Bruce Darling, an organizer with disability justice group ADAPT.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

Arundhati Roy: We Must Globalize Dissent

Radical alternatives to empire must come from the ground up—and traverse borders.

Arundhati Roy

Feature

Naomi Klein: We Need A Plan, Not A Brand

The author speaks on Corbyn, Trump, climate change, and the “hollow branding” that got us here.

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

Centrism Is in a Death Spiral: Our Only Hope Is to Let It Perish

While some cling to the Clinton era of the 1990s, the future belongs to a socialism for the 21st century.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Rural America

Game Over: Neither Party’s Health Care Plan Reflects Economic Reality

John Ikerd

Labor

Offshoring Solidarity: How Call-Center Workers Are Organizing Across Borders

Dan DiMaggio

Feature

The Problem With Centrism Is That It Might Get Us All Killed

Going ‘back to the center’ and curbing climate change are mutually exclusive.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

Can Indiana Be the Stronghold of the Resistance? This Organizer Thinks So.

Jesse Myerson is one of many trying to build a new progressive base in the country's heartland.

Sarah Jaffe

Feature

London’s Grenfell Disaster is An Indictment of Austerity

The fire’s victims were caught in the crosshairs of public cuts and a housing crisis.

Amar Diwakar

Culture

The Frustrating Yet Beautiful Drama of “A Ghost Story”

Filmmaker David Lowery's latest is slow, but contains a few genuine spiritual ideas.

Michael Atkinson

Feature

The Police State Can Come After Trump Protesters, But It Can’t Make Them Cooperate

Facing up to 75 years in prison, 135 Inauguration Day protesters are refusing to collaborate with the prosecution.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

As Universities are Gutted, Grad Student Employee Unions Can Provide a Vital Defense

Sabeen Ahmed

Culture

Squatters’ 60-Year War Against Private Property

How propertied classes team up with the state to forcibly evict urban squatters.

Margaret Garb

Feature

‘I Must Mourn’: Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of July 4th to the Slave

These words, spoken in 1852, are relevant to modern U.S. society mired in the legacies of slavery and racist brutality.

Frederick Douglass