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Don’t Let a School Shooting Become a Story About the Police

Guns are the issue. A lot of the political establishment wants you to forget that.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

How Amazon and Starbucks Workers Are Upending the Organizing Rules

Workers are leading. Unions should support them or get out of the way.

Chris Brooks

Rural America

They Pick Food All Day, But Many Farmworkers Go to Sleep Hungry

Immigrant farmworkers in the U.S. often live in food deserts without access to the fruits and vegetables they spend their days harvesting.

Astra Lincoln

Feature

The Pentagon Is Protecting and Funding the Same Gun Makers Democrats Want to Regulate

Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used by the Robb Elementary shooter, has been handed over 100 federal contracts.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Meet the Tongan-American Unionist on a Pilgrimage To Support Striking Workers Around the U.S.

A conversation with Tevita 'Uhatafe, a rank-and-file member of the Transport Workers Union Local 513 in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Starbucks. Amazon. Now, Trader Joe’s Is Unionizing.

Workers are pushing for the grocery store chain’s first union.

Jeremy Gantz

Labor

As Illinois Coal Jobs Disappear, Some Are Looking to the Sun

While Illinois phases out coal, clean energy jobs hold promise—both for displaced coal workers, and those harmed by the fossil fuel economy.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Teachers at the Blue Man Group’s "Progressive" School Strike Over Union Busting

The private Blue School in New York teaches labor history. Its teachers just walked off the job.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

The U.S. Is Complicit in Shireen Abu Akleh's Killing

If our tax dollars are furnishing the weapons that kill journalists and other innocents, that’s not just an international crime—it’s against U.S. law, too

Phyllis Bennis and Richard Falk

Dispatch

After Getting Burned By Wall Street, California Fire Victims Fight To Reclaim Their Power

California utility company PG&E has settled, but many fire victims are still waiting to see their full payout.

Jordan Allyn

Labor

Buffalo Starbucks Workers Waited 6 Months Before the NLRB Finally Filed a Complaint Against the Company

These Starbucks workers were the first to unionize—but labor law went unenforced during their elections.

Maxwell Parrott

Feature

How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black Families

A single call from an anonymous tipster is all it takes for the government to take children from their families

Dorothy Roberts

Viewpoint

If Banks Want to Be Seen as Climate-Friendly, They Need to Exit Fossil Fuels

The climate movement is stepping up pressure on banks to stop the flow of cash to the oil and gas industry.

Arielle Swernoff

LaborFeature

These Are The Workers Who Took on Amazon, and Won

Against all odds, Amazon workers in New York organized a successful union against one of the biggest companies in the world. Here's how.

Luis Feliz Leon

Overturning Roe Will Be an Economic Catastrophe for Millions of Women

Abortion rights are economic rights.

Asha Banerjee

Culture

HBO's DMZ Fails to Invent a Truly Revolutionary Society

The miniseries stars Rosario Dawson in a depoliticized dystopia

Devyn Springer

Viewpoint

America Has Embraced Forced Pregnancy

Nine months of physical and hormonal trauma to your body—with permanent and sometimes lethal consequences—is no longer your choice.

Miriam Markowitz

Rural America

The Radical Immigrant Farmers Who Helped Defeat the Robber Barons

Beginning in the 1840s, revolutionary German immigrants introduced agrarian radicalism to Texas and shaped the U.S. tradition of rural socialism

Thomas Alter II