The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
ViewpointElection 2024
Project 2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.
Trump, Vance and the hateful horizons of “trad futurism.”
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
ViewpointElection 2024
Kamala Harris’s Veep List is a Choice Between the Past and the Present for Education
VP contender Josh Shapiro has been a staunch supporter of school vouchers. Voters want good public schools—and a vice president willing to fight for them.
Akil Vicks
ViewpointFeature
875,000 Veterans, $382 Million in Medical Debt
When you’re 72 years old, disabled and a $108,094 notice lands in your mailbox—along with the number for a veterans suicide hotline.
Rory Fanning
Feature
Who Would Want to Grow Old Only to Grow Poor?
Seniors are increasingly in debt and facing financial crises at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The mass movement that fought for seniors 100 years ago under the banner of the Townsend Plan could be a model for solving the growing crisis now.
Eleni Schirmer
InvestigationGoodman InstituteEn Español
Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente
Por todo el mundo, las fuerzas gubernamentales atacan a los activistas medioambientales con impunidad—y con el apoyo de Estados Unidos.
Alessandra Bergamin
LaborViewpointPalestine
Unions Demanding an End to Israel Military Aid Is a Welcome Escalation
While the Biden administration uses rhetorical tricks and delay tactics, labor unions are pressuring the White House to end the war by embracing an increasingly popular demand: “not one more bomb.”
Adam Johnson
ViewpointElection 2024
J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard
The Republican VP nominee’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class.
Elizabeth Catte
ViewpointRural America
Utah’s Development Plans Threaten My Navajo Homeland
Tribes came together to win federal protection for Bears Ears. Now, the state of Utah could undermine the monument.
Mark Maryboy
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
An Untold History of Joe Biden's Support for Israel
Documents reviewed in Delaware and New York give insight into how, starting early in Biden's political career, his positions appear to have significantly changed as his relationships strengthened with a growing pro-Israel lobby.
Branko Marcetic
ViewpointPalestine
The Congressional Black Caucus Should Boycott Netanyahu's Speech to Congress
Many Black members of Congress boycotted Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in 2015. They should do it again to protest the Israeli-led genocide in Gaza.
Khury Petersen-Smith
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
Biden, Harris, Gaza and the Student Debt Smoke Screen
President Biden has made appearances to be aligned with left-wing activists on student debt cancelation while holding back on his power to deliver it. How will Vice President Harris now approach the issue?
Braxton Brewington and Yousef Aljamal
Interview
“It’s a system that’s rigged. It’s messed up, and we’re the ones that have to bear that burden."
At a jubilee in Leimert Park, Debt Collective spoke with residents from across Los Angeles about their debts. What we found was solidarity and resistance.
Maddy Clifford
FeatureCover Story
"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union
Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.
Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor
ViewpointFeature
The Future of Housing Organizing: Tenant Unions
The only answer to our housing crises is collective action. A growing movement of tenant unions promises a new front in the struggle for our homes.
Rose Lenehan and Tara Raghuveer
FeatureInterview
What Is the World We Are Imagining Beyond Debt?
A special roundtable on debt abolition and racial capitalism—and how we can organize for a future beyond accumulation. Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Alex Han, Robin G. Kelley, René Moya and Derecka Purnell.
Jalil Mustaffa Bishop
ComicsDepartments
New Comics: Drawing Against Debt
Comics on Debtor Organizing
LaborViewpointElection 2024
Teamsters President Happily Walks Into Republican Trap
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien played into Republicans’ phony pro-worker rebrand that was on display at the Republican National Convention.
Alexandra Bradbury
LaborViewpointElection 2024
What the Left Needs From the Post-Biden Democrats
From demanding an end to the war on Gaza to a stronger labor movement, now is the time for the U.S. Left to make its voice heard.
Hamilton Nolan
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