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August/September 2024 Volume 48, Issue 07

Labor
The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It Sarah Jaffe
Viewpoint
The Left Are the Adults in the Room Osita Nwanevu
Feature
Wasteland Warriors Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple
How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago Eman Abdelhadi
Dispatch
This Land is Co-op Land Amie Stager
Culture
Punk Rock Karaoke Bianca Xunise
Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain
Comics
New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell
Departments
The Big Idea: Ethanol J. Patrick Patterson
Feature
Wasteland Warriors

“I showed up for East Palestine because I realized we are not alone.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Molly Crabapple
Feature Election 2024 Climate
A "Sustainable Square Mile" Tests the Power of Biden's Billions for Climate Justice

Can $3 billion in hyperlocal funding for environmental justice create lasting change?

Adam Mahoney
Feature Interview
As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City is About

A pivotal teachers’ strike, decades of movement building, and a surprising mayoral victory: Chicago organizers built a mass movement that has transformed the city. A roundtable with Alex Han, Katelyn Johnson, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jesse Sharkey, Tania Unzueta and J. Patrick Patterson.

J. Patrick Patterson
Feature Palestine Election 2024
How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago

From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.

Eman Abdelhadi
Labor Feature
The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It

“We can win more together than we can on our own.”

Sarah Jaffe
Viewpoint
The High Stakes of Mapping the Midwest
How can a state continue to be deadlocked with a legislature controlled by Trumpian Republicans when it’s been busy electing not just Democrats but, in many cases, progressive Democrats?
John Nichols
Dispatch
This Land is Co-op Land
A hundred years ago, radical Finnish immigrants founded a cooperatively-owned park to escape political repression on Minnesota’s Iron Range. It’s still “a workingman’s paradise.”
Amie Stager
Culture
Punk Rock Karaoke
A love letter to Midwestern punks.
Bianca Xunise
Departments
The Big Idea: Ethanol
The United States is the world’s largest producer of corn, most of it is grown in the Midwest, and almost all gasoline sold in the United States contains ethanol, a corn-based renewable additive to fuel.
J. Patrick Patterson
Viewpoint
Fighting Privatization Is Good for Mental Health
Dedicated community leaders and persistent organizing are helping make Chicago’s new expansion of public mental health services a reality.
Elena Gormley
Comics
New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers
Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell
Viewpoint
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
While often overlooked, the spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged in the 19th century. It continues to animate the region’s political landscape today.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Culture
Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests
I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.
Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain
A woman protester shouts into a large megaphone in the foreground. A few older protesters stand behind her with signs reading "Gaza love," "Abandon Biden--ceasefire now" and have flower and peace sign imagery.
ViewpointElection 2024
The Left Are the Adults in the Room
Progressives have earned the party's ear at the Democratic National Convention—here's how to use it.
Osita Nwanevu

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