The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

Defund the Police? Why Not?

We should not confuse public safety with investments in systems of punishment.

Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

Protesting Native Deaths by Police

Amid protests against police violence nationwide, a march was held in remembrance of a Native man who died in police custody while suffering a mental health crisis.

Elena Carter

Rural America

Bayer Engineered a New Corn Seed That’s Resistant to Five Herbicides. But How Long Will It Work?

Johnathan Hettinger

Labor

The Post Office Belongs to the Public. Let’s not Give it to Wall Street.

Mark Dimondstein and Richard Koritz

Departments

11 Statistics That Show Racism Is Entrenched in Our Healthcare System

Covid-19 is disproportionately harming Black Americans. This is not an exception, but the rule.

Dayton Martindale

Labor

OSHA Complaints Show the Morbid Dangers Healthcare Workers Face During Covid

Nick Vachon

Labor

Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

They Are Burying Us Alive in Prison

When Covid-19 broke out in Stateville Correctional Center, we were left to die.

Raul Dorado

Viewpoint

All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”

The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.

Shannon Gleeson and Sofya Aptekar

Feature

Nationalize the Pharmaceutical Industry Now

The status quo will kill us.

Hadas Thier

Labor

Foreign Farm Workers Already Face Abusive Conditions. Now Trump Wants to Cut Their Wages.

Maurizio Guerrero

Viewpoint

There Is No Plan (For You)

Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

Rebecca Burns

Rural America

‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives

Jordan Green

Viewpoint

“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams

In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left

A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and '40s.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

The Parent Trap

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Feature

Barr’s New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters

By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.

Chip Gibbons