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Rural America
Meatpacking Plants Disproportionately Pollute Poor, Non-White Communities
Postville, Iowa has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer—and the same is true in many towns near meatpacking plants.
John McCracken and Mónica Cordero
Rural America
Despite Support for Trump, Rural Voters Split with Republican Party on School Vouchers and Abortion
2024 vote tallies show rural areas are more politically complex than popular party and media narratives would have us believe.
Lane Wendell Fischer
LaborViewpoint
Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer?
Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.
Osita Nwanevu
ViewpointRural America
The "Yellowstone" TV Show Is Over, but Not the Damage It’s Done to the West
The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.
Johnathan Hettinger
Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power
Workers describe tens of thousands of packages delayed—and a strong sense of empowerment within warehouses—after Amazon workers with the Teamsters launched the largest strike to date against one of the world's most powerful companies.
Luis Feliz Leon
Water gushes from a large red spigot
Labor
Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters
Teamsters requested an investigation of the flood from Amazon's warehouse that swamped a picket line in Queens; they also filed for a restraining order against the NYPD.
Luis Feliz Leon
Feature
How the LA Tenants Union Fights Displacement with Community
Lessons from a decade of building tenant power
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis
A man stares at the camera as police pull him forward by each arm
Labor
NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike
Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.
Luis Feliz Leon
ViewpointElection 2024
The Billionaires’ Election
The disastrous 2024 outcome shows the ever-growing role of money in American politics.
Rob Larson
Viewpoint
Socialists in Office Are Building Power on the Local Level
At a recent gathering in Philadelphia, elected officials endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America shared strategies for advancing left-wing policy at all levels of government.
David Duhalde
ViewpointElection 2024
All the President’s Apologists
Rehabilitating the president most synonymous with executive overreach and corruption paves the way for a return of Nixonian—and now Trumpist—power politics.
Caleb Brennan
Dispatch
Time is Running Out to Cancel Debt for Aging Borrowers
Aging debtors staged a “knit-in” outside of the Department of Education to demand loan forgiveness.
Lily Greenberg Call
Labor
Grocery Giants Kroger and Albertsons Lose In Blocked Merger
The collapse of the Kroger-Albertsons deal is a historic win for farmers, workers and everyone else.
Jessica Corbett
Comics
Oligarch Victory Parade
New election comics, curated by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors
Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Mallorie Udischas-Trojan
CultureComics
Comic To Burn Down The System
"Reform" or compliance?
Ben Passmore
Palestine
The Unseen Battle for Food in Gaza
"We are not only suffering from bombs, starvation is used as a weapon against Gazans."
Iman Al-Haj
Culture
Crosswords for Change
Puzzle solvers and constructors are building a new world for games.
Kaitlin Hsu (徐欣)
CultureComics
Vote Harder
This graphic novel is dreaming up alternatives to electoral politics.
Matt Bors
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