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Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter, Prosecutors Who Bungle Police Shooting Cases Face Tough Election Fights

While recognizing the limits of electoral politics, the movement has ousted two prosecutors--Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty--and has more in its sights

Jennifer Ball

Comics

Don’t Take the Subway During Election Time

Matt Bors

Rural America

What the Candidates are Saying About Agriculture

John Collins

Labor

New Report: 90 Percent of the World’s Domestic Workers Lack Social Security Protection

Elizabeth Grossman

Labor

After Contract Talks Break Down, Nearly 40,000 Verizon Workers Set To Strike Tomorrow

David Moberg

Feature

How Bernie Sanders Can Harness the Kind of Momentum Transforming British Politics

British activists could offer lessons for Americans who are feeling the Bern about how to transition from a political campaign to a long-term, mass movement.

Kate Aronoff

Viewpoint

The Paradox of Bernie Sanders and the Black Voter

Despite Sanders' historic election, we still don’t seem any closer to resolving the rancorous intra-left debates about race and class.

Salim Muwakkil

Viewpoint

From Broad City to the Era of the Single, Independent Woman: Female Solidarity Has Gone Mainstream

Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee and Rebecca Traister herald a new epoch of female independence

Susan J. Douglas

Labor

Labor Notes Conference Gathers Over 2,000 ‘Troublemaker’ Workers and Organizers in Chicago

David Moberg

Feature

To Reform the Police, We Have To Expand Democratic Power Over Them

Technocratic tinkering will not solve the American problem of police brutality and community distrust of law enforcement.

Ben Rosenfield

Dispatch

Understanding What Makes Donald Trump Voters Tick: Is It Just Racism?

In Trump's appeal, the Left seeks clues on winning back the white working-class.

Ian Haney López and Matt Morrison

Feature

Speaking to High Schoolers About the Truth of War Helped Me Deal with My Trauma from Being a Soldier

If a teenager is going to sign up to kill and die for a cause or even the promise of a better life, then the least he or she should know is the good, the bad and the ugly about the job.

Rory Fanning

Rural America

Clean Power Plan: An Equitable Energy Transition in Rural America

Tara Ritter

Labor

Why the Labor Movement Must Join the Anti-Racist Struggle To Make Black Lives Matter

Andrew Tillett-Saks

Labor

American and Palestinian Unionists Build International Solidarity To Win ‘Freedom’ for Palestine

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Our First Socialist Mayor: Remembering Milwaukee’s Socialist Party History

Frank Zeidler served the city as mayor for three terms, and his Socialist Party held seats in the city council, state legislature and even Congress.

Shaun Richman

Viewpoint

A Progressive Case for Clinton

I am a progressive, I like Hillary Clinton and I do not feel remotely conflicted about that.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

Ben & Jerry on Bernie Sanders and the Origins of Their Progressive Politics

The ice cream moguls speak on why they have stayed so engaged in activism over the last several decades.

Marc Daalder