April 2018 Volume 42, Issue 04

April 2018

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Viewpoint

The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle Charles Cobb Jr.

We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up Daniel Denvir

Feature

Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan Dayton Martindale

Trump Wants a Football League Where Nobody Kneels. Vince McMahon Is Making That a Reality. Mike Kuhlenbeck

How a Scrappy Campus Union Saved Tennessee From Privatization Chris Brooks and Rebecca Kolins Givan

The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years Theo Anderson

Dispatch

Bernie’s Platform Could Win in Maryland’s Gov. Race, With Support From Clinton Voters Bruce Vail

Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump’s Border Wall Yvonne S. Marquez

A West Virginia Candidate Got Kicked out the Capitol for Calling Out Big Oil. She’s Not Sorry. Sasha Kramer

Culture

From Harriet Tubman to Black Panther Madiha Hussaini

For Cowboy Poets, One Topic is Taboo Carson Vaughan

How a 19th-Century Absurdist Playwright Accidentally Predicted Trump Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years Joanna Scutts

Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan

Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check.

Dayton Martindale

Trump Wants a Football League Where Nobody Kneels. Vince McMahon Is Making That a Reality.

McMahon’s XFL league is set to ban player protests and trample workers’ rights.

Mike Kuhlenbeck

How a Scrappy Campus Union Saved Tennessee From Privatization

The Southern victory could be a blueprint for defending the public sector.

Chris Brooks and Rebecca Kolins Givan

The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years

From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.

Theo Anderson

From Harriet Tubman to Black Panther

An artist speaks on heroism in the Black community.

Madiha Hussaini

For Cowboy Poets, One Topic is Taboo

They love the land. But few at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering want to talk about how climate change is ravaging the West.

How a 19th-Century Absurdist Playwright Accidentally Predicted Trump

Ubu Roi is newly relevant, thanks to our president.

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Bernie’s Platform Could Win in Maryland’s Gov. Race, With Support From Clinton Voters

Former NAACP President Ben Jealous is building a broad coalition of progressives to take out a popular GOP governor in Maryland.

Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned

A cooperative Atlanta cafe is step one toward an alternative to white capitalism.

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years

A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.

Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump’s Border Wall

In South Texas, a community rallies to protect both its wildlife and residents.

Yvonne S. Marquez

A West Virginia Candidate Got Kicked out the Capitol for Calling Out Big Oil. She’s Not Sorry.

Lissa Lucas thinks we need politicians who aren’t taking their marching orders from corporations.

The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture

The origins of the U.S. gun obsession lie in the violent dispossession of Native Americans.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle

From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.

Charles Cobb Jr.

We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up

Solutions rooted in policing and prisons just contribute to a culture of violence.

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