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Detty December Brings Euphoria and Hope for Ghana’s Future

President John Mahama’s re-election gave some Ghanaians "cautious optimism" during the festival season.

Ernest Ankomah and Emmanuel Kwame Sarpong

Labor

After Gaza Cease-fire, the Labor Movement Isn’t Done Fighting for Palestinian Freedom

Networks of U.S. union organizers are calling for an end to a system of apartheid in Israel and cessation of all armed conflict in the region.

Jeff Schuhrke

LaborInterview

This Labor Leader Who Nearly Unseated a GOP Senator Wants More Working-Class Candidates to Run

Dan Osborn ran as an independent in Nebraska and came close to ousting a two-term Republican incumbent. He’s not done taking on the billionaire class.

Steve Early

PalestineInterview

Our Fight Doesn’t End at Cease-Fire

A conversation with pro-Palestine organizers looking towards the next phase of struggle: disrupting the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.

Nashwa Bawab

DispatchPolitics

You Are Invited to the Predators' Ball, as Food

At Trump’s second inauguration, no one wanted to admit they were the suckers.

Hamilton Nolan

Comics

Delay, Deny, Decry

Comics for a Dysfunctional Healthcare System

Kendra Wells, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow and Mattie Lubchansky

ViewpointPolitics

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

ViewpointPalestine

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

InvestigationPolitics

Trump's Greenland Problem

As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real stakes of the Arctic’s mounting cold war.

Adam Federman

ViewpointPalestine

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

Culture

The Artist and the Ukrainian Front

Zhanna Kadyrova ponders the role of art in war—and finds new meaning in bullet-pierced walls.

Matt A. Hanson

Labor

An Award to Sustain the Growing Labor Movement

Why we’re launching the Labor Organizer of the Year Award.

Alex Han

ViewpointPalestine

Has the Fire Ceased?

We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Eman Abdelhadi

Fire on a ridgeline above two houses nestled in trees

Climate

L.A. Activists Put Price-Gouging Landlords on Notice

Tenant organizers see signs of illegal disaster profiteering on Los Angeles rental sites while 100,000 evacuees seek temporary or permanent lodging.

Rebecca Burns

CultureClimate

Killing The Forest For The Trees

Trump intends to reopen the Tongass National Forest to logging. But environmentalists and tribal governments envision a more equitable and sustainable future for Southeast Alaska's economy.

Caroleine James

A man in shorts and white knee socks stands in his doorway looking at a flier, with a woman looking over his shoulder and two canvassers in Siembra NC gear facing him

ViewpointElection 2024

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

FeatureElection 2024

School of Hard Knocks

What the Left learned from a bruising election.

Henry Hicks IV

Dispatch

Michigan’s Muslims Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

Disgusted by Democrats' ongoing support for the genocide in Gaza, some Muslim and Arab American voters are embracing third-party candidates and community-based forms of political engagement.

Malak Silmi