The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

To Win in 2020 and Beyond, the Democrats Need a Bolder Moral Vision

The urgent case for setting our sights higher.

Rev. William Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharis

Investigation

Inside the Endless Nightmare of Indefinite Detention Under “Civil Commitment”

After serving their criminal sentence, these men discover their punishment may never be over.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

This Terrifying Economic Crisis Will Make Cities Better

Amid the pandemic, the rich are fleeing American cities. That’s a good thing.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Last Thing Libya Needs Is an Intensification of a U.S. Proxy War

We must stop our government from treating Libya like its own private battleground.

Gregory Shupak

Feature

Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It.

On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare

Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

Rural America

Agricultural Workers Lose Millions of Dollars Each Year to Employer Wage Theft

It’s against U.S. labor laws, but that hasn’t stopped employers from withholding more than $65 million in worker wages over the last two decades.

Pramod Acharya

Feature

The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System

While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.

Joseph Bullington

Labor

The Return of the Construction Industry Has Brought a Surge of Immigrant Worker Deaths

The rush to keep building through the pandemic has compounded the risks for construction workers.

Maurizio Guerrero

Viewpoint

U.S. Sanctions Are Strangling a Lebanon in Crisis

As Lebanon faces multiple, overlapping catastrophes, U.S. policies are making them worse.

Bilal El-Amine

Viewpoint

Now Comes the Difficult Work of Pushing the Biden-Harris Ticket Left

If Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris is a “weather vane,” then it’s up to progressives to change the weather.

Natalie Shure

Labor

The Largest Private-Sector Strike of the Year Is Headed for Union Victory

After nearly seven weeks on the picket line, Machinists union members will soon vote on a contract that includes everything they’re fighting for.

Jeremy Gantz

LaborClimate

The Green New Deal Just Won a Major Union Endorsement. What's Stopping the AFL-CIO?

Union support for the Green New Deal is growing. It's time for America's largest labor federation to get on board.

Mindy Isser

Feature

Mijente Stayed Out of the 2016 Election. Here’s Why It’s Going All In This Time.

Hispanic voters will comprise 13% of the electorate this year—the largest nonwhite demographic group of eligible voters. Mijente’s “Fuera Trump” campaign aims to mobilize them for the November election.

Ray Levy-Uyeda

Rural America

Animals and Plants Are Relocating Because of Climate Change. Should They Be Considered Invasive?

Jenny Morber

Feature

I Shouldn’t Have to Be a “Strong Black Woman” for My Life to Matter

Support Black women when we are loud or quiet, when we are brave or scared, when we are fed-up or meek.

Ramenda Cyrus

Viewpoint

Want Progressive U.S. Politics? Continue to Reform the Democratic Party Rules

There would be far more elected officials like Jamaal Bowman and AOC, if New York complied with the new Party reforms.

Larry Cohen

Feature

Biden Promises a Return to the Obama Era. That’s Bad News for Palestinians.

A campaign built on nostalgia is no comfort for those who are not at all nostalgic for the Obama administration.

Alex Kane

Rural America

Report: More Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year Than Ever Before

Ashoka Mukpo