Opinion

How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration's Small Business Administration isn’t helping.

Miranda Litwak

My University Plans to Reopen This Summer, Based on Advice From McKinsey. That’s Terrifying.

McKinsey & Company is pushing a military-style, corporate response to the Covid-19 crisis in public higher education. What we need is an anti-racist approach.

Jeffrey Helgeson

The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real

Jamaal Bowman and other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left wing is a force to be reckoned with.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper Are One and The Same

Bogus allegations waged by white women are just as dangerous as police brutality—and come from the same callous privilege.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People

Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.

Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

Salim Muwakkil

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

Want to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden? Here’s How.

Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term—by going down-ballot.

David Duhalde

Our Biden Problem

Movements face a challenge: how to oust Trump while still combatting Biden's neoliberalism.

Barbara Ransby

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement's role in a capitalist-colonialist state.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

“We Actually Cannot Reform This Department”: A Minneapolis Councilor on the Need to Disband Police

In an interview, Minneapolis Council Member Steve Fletcher explains why his city is moving to dismantle its police department—and what lessons other cities can take.

Michael Arria

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

Hamilton Nolan

In Big Cities, It’s Democrats Who Have Poured Money Into Policing

Democratic mayors of Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis have treated bloated police budgets as sacrosanct.

Sonali Kolhatkar / Independent Media Institute

Don’t Shame Protesters and Park-Goers Over Covid-19 Spreading—Shame Corporations and the State

While demonstrators have been blamed for potentially endangering the public, the real danger lies elsewhere.

Natalie Shure

Trump’s Answer to Structural Racism? Police State Fascism.

With protests against police violence spreading like wildfire, Trump is responding with authoritarianism—and an ever more violent crackdown.

Christopher D. Cook

One Weird Trick to Slash Your City’s Police Budget Right Now

Los Angeles just announced the city is massively cutting its police budget. There has literally never been an easier—or better—time for other cities to follow suit.

Hamilton Nolan

The “Outside Agitator” Is a Myth Used to Weaken Protest Movements

Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t fall for it.

Glenn Houlihan

The Focus on Looting Shows How Our Systems of Power Value Capital Over Human Lives

Rather than indicting the racist police murder of George Floyd and other black Americans, our leaders are up in arms over protests and property destruction. That’s the twisted logic of U.S. capitalism.

Eli Day