June 2017 Volume 41, Issue 06

June 2017

Get 10 issues for $19.95

Subscribe to the print magazine.

Subscribe Now

Viewpoint

Jeremy Corbyn’s Judgment Day Jane Miller

The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial Naomi Walker

Don’t Mine What’s Ours Dayton Martindale

War Profiteering Ain’t Physics Leonard C. Goodman

Another War, Another Blitzerkrieg Susan J. Douglas

Feature

Why We Should Stop Using the Word “Activist” Jonathan Matthew Smucker

The Surprising Cross-Partisan Appeal of Single-Payer Healthcare Theo Anderson

Sanctuary in the Streets: How New Alliances Are Revitalizing a Past Movement Yana Kunichoff

Mothers of the World, Unite! Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Meet the Left Radical Who Will Likely Be Jackson, Mississippi’s Next Mayor Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

Turning Capital Against Capitalism Chris Merriam

The Folk Singer vs. the Millionaire: A Berniecrat Aims for Montana’s House Seat Joseph Bullington

Culture

The Return of Nunsploitation Michael Atkinson

How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire Chris Lehmann

When the Bankers Took Manhattan: Austerity’s New York Roots Moe Tkacik

The Milquetoast Militants of Showtime’s “Guerrilla” Eileen Jones

Why We Should Stop Using the Word “Activist”

Contesting power isn't a hobby or a subculture—it's a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

The Surprising Cross-Partisan Appeal of Single-Payer Healthcare

Where Trump voters and socialists agree.

Theo Anderson

Sanctuary in the Streets: How New Alliances Are Revitalizing a Past Movement

A revitalized sanctuary movement is spreading to unexpected places, resisting the threats posed by Trump’s presidency.

Yana Kunichoff

Mothers of the World, Unite!

A new Mother's Day Proclamation.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Meet the Left Radical Who Will Likely Be Jackson, Mississippi’s Next Mayor

If the Left can make it here, they can make it anywhere.

Kate Aronoff

The Return of Nunsploitation

Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is a clever update on Boccaccio's The Decameron.

Michael Atkinson

Turning Capital Against Capitalism

Experiments in funding an equitable economy.

Jeremy Corbyn’s Judgment Day

The June 8 election is critical for Labour's future.

The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial

The Right's assault on public-sector workers is an assault on the public sector itself.

Don’t Mine What’s Ours

How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP.

Dayton Martindale

How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire

A new book argues that in the military's hands, warnings of world's end become self-fulfilling prophecies.

War Profiteering Ain’t Physics

Even Trump can't buck the iron law of U.S. foreign policy: Follow the money.

Leonard C. Goodman

When the Bankers Took Manhattan: Austerity’s New York Roots

The new book Fear City documents the slide of New York City from vibrant social democracy to neoliberal abyss.

Another War, Another Blitzerkrieg

It's time to question CNN's decades of enthusiastic war coverage.

Susan J. Douglas

The Folk Singer vs. the Millionaire: A Berniecrat Aims for Montana’s House Seat

Rob Quist's House campaign draws on Montana's populist spirit.

Joseph Bullington

The Milquetoast Militants of Showtime’s “Guerrilla”

The protagonists' middle-class naiveté rolls off them in waves.

← May 2017 In the Age of Trump, Can Labor Unite? July 2017 Rage Against the Democratic Machine →