Opinion

"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"

Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.

Margaret Vail Palmquist

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way

Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

Mariame Kaba

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

Alex Han

Capitalism Without Humans

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

Sarah Jaffe

"We Will Be Closed: ICE Out of Minnesota"

All the ingredients for a general strike are present in Minnesota.

Luis Feliz Leon

Want to Fight Fascism? Look to U.S. History.

What Reconstruction, the New Deal and the Rainbow Coalition can teach us about building the broadest possible front to fight the authoritarian Right

Rishi Awatramani

“Always More Than a Label”: 8 Ways to Be Like King for the Struggle Today—Coretta Scott King, That Is

Jeanne Theoharis

End Military Action in Venezuela and Help Working Class Americans

Healthcare costs are doubling, food prices are rising and the safety net is shredded. So why are we launching an illegal war to profit oil companies?

Lindsay Koshgarian

ICE Is the Domestic Terror Threat

The federal agent who killed Renee Nicole Good shot her because he knew he could—because the Trump administration has purposely empowered law enforcement to act with impunity.

Jordan Liz

Antifa Everywhere

As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?

Alberto Toscano

There Should Be No Debate. Corporations Should Pay More Taxes.

As Chicago's budget standoff continues, the issue of whether corporations should pay more taxes to support the public good should not be contentious.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland

For the First Time in the Trump Era, a Key Opportunity Is Here

This month voters repudiated MAGA in elections large and small across the country. Those of us on the left need a clear-eyed assessment of the political terrain and a vision that can look beyond the current fight.

Alex Han

Mamdani Won. Now What?

After two years of a genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping.

Nashwa Bawab

COP30 Isn't a Failure — It's a Farce

Why these climate summits can't solve the crisis—and why we should support Indigenous land struggles instead.

Peter Gelderloos

The Shutdown May Be Over, But Millions Are Still Set to Lose Food Stamps

Trump and the GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed earlier this year includes the largest cuts to SNAP in history. And those cuts are starting now.

Reyanna James

The Mamdani Freak-Out

With its hyperfocus on NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and left anti-Zionism, the right-wing Jewish establishment is revealing just how antidemocratic it is.

Dania Rajendra

Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?

Non-stop Islamophobic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.

Adam Johnson

Trump’s Kill Zone in the Caribbean Is an Escalation of the Never-ending U.S. Drug War

The strikes on boats near Venezuela mark a new phase in a murderous war on Latin America that has been waged by 10 U.S. presidents.

Greg Grandin