The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Amazon Labor Activism Goes International as European and U.S. Workers Combine Forces
Hamilton Nolan
Rural America
A Mask Shortage Could Leave Farmers and Farm Workers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Melanie Bateman
Feature
Workers Are Fighting for Their Lives on May Day. They Deserve to Be Heard.
A conversation with Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Virginia and liaison for Target Workers Unite.
Maximillian Alvarez
Dispatch
Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented
Undocumented workers are excluded from unemployment protections and stimulus checks, but not from union solidarity.
Brooke Anderson
Viewpoint
Congress: Either Come Babysit My Kids, or Cancel My Rent
I’m a mother of 6-year-old twins and like millions of other Americans, I can't pay rent—so I'm going on a rent strike.
Jenay Manley
Labor
Get Ready for Mass Strikes Across the U.S. This May Day
Christopher D. Cook
Viewpoint
Don’t Believe the Debt Hawks—More Stimulus Is the Only Path to Recovery
Fear-mongering over the deficit is the absolute wrong approach to the Covid-19 crisis.
Josh Bivens
Feature
A Federal Jobs Program for Contact Tracing
To safely reopen the economy, we need a public health corps. Here's how to build it.
Dayton Martindale
Viewpoint
The Real Reason Why the WHO Waited Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic.
Vijay Prashad
Labor
Bernie’s Army Redeploys to Support Covid-19’s Frontline Workers
Steven Greenhouse
Labor
Bernie Lost Because America Doesn’t Have a Strong Labor Movement
Hamilton Nolan
Rural America
In Montana, Food Banks Battle Surging Demand and Shifting Supply Chains
Joseph Bullington
Dispatch
“An Essential Procedure”: How Abortion Providers Are Persevering Through the Pandemic
In the face of Covid-19, clinics are continuing to provide safe abortions at a safe distance.
Jessica Corbett
Feature
Right-Wing Think Tanks Are Using Covid-19 To Push War with Iran
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute are aggressively campaigning for military escalation and a tightening of sanctions.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
Amazon’s Unlimited Unpaid Time Off Ends May 1, and Workers Say That Could Be Deadly
Hamilton Nolan
Rural America
The South May Suffer the Largest Share of Covid-19 Misery. Here’s Why.
Christine Vestal
Viewpoint
Tired of Fighting About Third Parties? Just Enact Ranked Choice Voting.
Rather than scolding voters for wanting more options, we should put in place a more representative system.
Rob Richie and David Daley
Culture
Is the Present Too Much? It’s a Good Time To Take Up Afrofuturism.
Marvel's 'Black Panther,' Octavia Butler's science fiction and Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' are all prime examples of this movement celebrating the Black experience.
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