The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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

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

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

LaborViewpointElection 2024

The Profits of Fear

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

Alberto Toscano

Viewpoint

As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”

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

Stephen Zunes

LaborViewpoint

“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

Labor

Julie Su Is Still Optimistic About the Future of Labor

A discussion between Kim Kelly and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su about the accomplishments of her tenure, anti-worker threats on the horizon, and keeping faith in challenging times.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

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

Labor

SEIU Joins AFL-CIO to 'Unleash a New Era of Worker Power' as Trump 2.0 Looms

"CEOs and billionaires want nothing more than to see workers divided, but we're standing here today with greater solidarity than ever," said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler.

Jake Johnson

Viewpoint

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

Viewpoint

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

Culture

Voices On the Wall

Street art in Bangladesh prevails after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government.

Piyas Biswas