The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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As Oil Plummets, Climate Activists Say Now Is the Time to Mobilize for a Green New Deal

Earth Day is more important now than ever. Here's how the climate movement is getting organized.

Christine MacDonald

Viewpoint

Capitalism Is Failing Its Coronavirus Stress Test—Only Workers Can Turn Things Around

Corporations will only do the right thing if we make them.

Labor leaders

Labor

Know Your Rights to Paid Leave and Unemployment During the COVID-19 Crisis

Robert M. Schwartz

Labor

Koch-Funded Think Tanks Are Lobbying to Send Workers to Their Deaths

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Amazon Will Not Change Without a Union

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We’re on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes

Tara Lohan

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Would We Already Have Had a COVID-19 Vaccine Under Socialism?

Debunking the myth that capitalism drives innovation.

Vanessa A. Bee

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Would We Already Have Had a COVID-19 Vaccine Under Socialism?

Debunking the myth that capitalism drives innovation.

Vanessa A. Bee

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The Democrats’ COBRA Proposal Is an Insurance Industry Bailout

We keep handing more money to the very for-profit insurance industry that is failing us.

Natalie Shure

Viewpoint

Want to Push Biden Left? Focus on These Appointments.

Appointments will have a major impact on whether a potential Biden administration delivers on progressive policies. Here's what the Left should push for now.

Eleanor Eagan

Rural America

The EPA Has Abandoned Its Duty To Protect the Environment. ‘Rights of Nature’ Laws Can Fill the Void

Kai Huschke and Simon Davis-Cohen

Viewpoint

David Sirota: The Democratic Party’s Tyranny of Decorum Helped Sink Bernie

Sanders could have gone harder against Biden, but ultimately it was the establishment that stood in his way.

David Sirota

Labor

The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months

Hamilton Nolan

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A Primer on Disaster Capitalism, Our New Normal

When a crisis occurs, the private sector often uses it as a distraction to push through its own agenda.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

Out of Prison, Into Alt-Prison

The industry profiting from prison halfway houses.

Katie Rose Quandt

Labor

Furloughed Disney Workers “Can’t Wait” For Help, But Florida’s Unemployment System Is Broken

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Corporations Are Not Letting This Crisis Go to Waste

As the pandemic wreaks chaos, corporations and the GOP are following the shock doctrine playbook.

Jeremy Mohler

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“We Are Essential”: Voices from the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Crisis

These are the voices of the people living, working and fighting through this crisis.

Maximillian Alvarez