Opinion

Looking for the Resistance

The true believers came out to the People's March in D.C., but a mass movement against Trump 2.0 failed to materialize.

Hamilton Nolan

The Gaza Cease-fire Is a Major Step—But the Fight for Palestine Must Continue

After 15 months of carnage, a cease-fire agreement offers a desperately needed respite. There are many obstacles, yet the movement to stop U.S. support for Israel goes on.

Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith

A Cease-fire in Gaza: Healing Wounds Will Take Years—and Much More

A cease-fire in Gaza is hope, and hope will help Gaza heal and rebuild.

Yousef Aljamal

Has the Fire Ceased?

We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Eman Abdelhadi

We Knocked Too Many Doors

In too many states, donors and organizers built infrastructure for one-off conversations instead of investing in issue campaigns that could have done more.

Andrew Willis Garcés

The Profits of Fear

Trump’s mass deportation plans are a racist racket with deep roots in U.S. history and law.

Alberto Toscano

As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”

The late Carter’s foreign policy record as president was mixed at best.

Stephen Zunes

“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor

“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

Sarah Jaffe

Progressives Should Reject the DOGE Scam

There’s nothing to gain from indulging the premise that Musk and Trump care about “government waste”—it’s a ploy to gut the entire liberal state.

Adam Johnson

Trump and RFK Jr.’s Policies Will Make America Sick

The next Trump administration is set to defund healthcare through a pro-corporate agenda. The answer is a universal, single-payer system.

Adam Gaffney

The Allegory of Would-Be Federal Judge Adeel Mangi

Mangi would have been the nation's first Muslim American federal appeals judge. But thanks to racist Republican attacks and Democratic spinelessness, he lost his appointment.

Jay Willis

Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer?

Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.

Osita Nwanevu

The "Yellowstone" TV Show Is Over, but Not the Damage It’s Done to the West

The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.

Johnathan Hettinger

The Billionaires’ Election

The disastrous 2024 outcome shows the ever-growing role of money in American politics.

Rob Larson

Socialists in Office Are Building Power on the Local Level

At a recent gathering in Philadelphia, elected officials endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America shared strategies for advancing left-wing policy at all levels of government.

David Duhalde

All the President’s Apologists

Rehabilitating the president most synonymous with executive overreach and corruption paves the way for a return of Nixonian—and now Trumpist—power politics.

Caleb Brennan

The Path for Socialism Is Focus

The Left should reject identity politics in favor of an oppositional economic platform and credible, progressive policy solutions.

Bhaskar Sunkara

Scapegoats and Solidarity

Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò