Opinion

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.

Daniel Denvir

The Arc of History Doesn’t Bend Toward Justice On Its Own.

It’s been 50 years since the Kerner Commission report was released, and institutional racism still pervades our society.

Joel Bleifuss

Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter (Unless You’re Michael Bloomberg)

Consumption shaming is bad science—and bad politics.

Kate Aronoff

A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change

Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus.

Dayton Martindale

Democrats Can’t Win By Courting Conservative White Voters

It’s time to follow the lead of Black grassroots organizers.

James Thindwa

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.

To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.

Joel Bleifuss

Trump Must Go

We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.

Joel Bleifuss

Puerto Rico Is a Symptom of America’s Rotting Democracy

We need to rebuild the island and our government.

Jessica Stites

Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right

We have our differences, but we also have the numbers.

Joel Bleifuss

We’ll Beat the Fascists With Ideas, Not Fists

As bad as the far Right is, shutting them down is poor strategy.

Nathan Robinson

Don’t Give Fascism an Inch

To defeat white supremacy, we must confront it directly.

Natasha Lennard

Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down

While different situations call for different tactics, sometimes the only option is denying a platform.

Mukund Rathi

Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women

Feminists and progressives need to highlight toxic masculinity's poisonous effects on not just the marginalized, but men as well.

Susan J. Douglas

There’s Nothing Okay About Kevin Drum’s “Disgust” For the Homeless

The Mother Jones column is a case study in how liberals insulate themselves from the psychological and material effects of injustice.

Michael Metzger

We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance

Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.

Salim Muwakkil

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels

The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.

Joel Bleifuss