The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint

Yes, A Woman Can Beat Trump

Democrats have learned all the wrong lessons from the 2016 election.

Kathleen Geier

Viewpoint

Bernie Sanders Has Laid Out the Stakes of the 2020 Election: Democratic Socialism or Barbarism

In a widely touted speech, Sanders explained why an unapologetic democratic socialist vision is the only antidote to the oligarchy and authoritarianism embodied by President Trump.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Viewpoint

Sick of Hearing About Electability? It Will Take Organizing To Expand Our Political Imagination.

To overcome the insistent messaging of the corporate media and Democratic establishment, we need grassroots people power.

Malaika Jabali

Feature

How Border Patrol Occupied the Tohono O’odham Nation

Under ever-expanding high-tech surveillance, the reservation has become “the most militarized community in America.”

Todd Miller

Viewpoint

“Electability” Is Astrology for Pundits

Expert predictions often represent little more than calcified prejudice.

Jonathan Cohn

Labor

How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned To Work Together in New York

Rachel M. Cohen

Feature

Trump Lets Raytheon Share Sensitive Bomb-Making Tech with Saudi Arabia

The president is defying Congress, which wants to shut off a flow of U.S. weapons that have been used to kill thousands of Yemenis.

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives

How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it

David Dayen

Labor

Did You Get a Text Inviting You to a Picket Line? It Might Be from Bernie Sanders.

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Hold the Applause. Biden’s Climate Plan Is Mostly Fluff.

Biden avoids taking on the fossil fuel industry by relying on vague promises and unproven technologies.

Dayton Martindale

Labor

Forget Sex Strikes—We Need a Real Strike for Abortion Rights

Tatiana Cozzarelli

Feature

Why Nancy Pelosi Needs to Sue the Trump Administration Over the Yemen War

Peace activists are urging lawmakers to step up their efforts to end the war.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Feature

The DNC’s New Finance Chair Embodies Everything the Left Hates About the Democratic Establishment

It’s not just his past criticisms of Bernie Sanders: Chris Korge has a long history of undermining the party’s progressive wing.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

What Makes Illinois’ Marijuana Legalization Bill So Progressive

The legislation, expected to be signed into law by the governor, takes steps towards rectifying the harms of the drug war.

Ramenda Cyrus

Feature

Lori Lightfoot Campaign Staffers Disappointed by Her Stance on Cop Academy

Sources close to Lightfoot’s campaign say some former staffers were disappointed by her apparent support for investment in further police training facilities.

Sabrina Gunter

Labor

American Airlines Mechanics Are Threatening the “Bloodiest, Ugliest Battle” in Labor History

Michael Arria

Feature

Sanctions Are Economic Warfare

Sanctions are a violent tool of U.S. control. And now this tool is in Trump's hands.

Gabe Levine-Drizin

Labor

Trump’s Trade War with China Benefits Big Corporations—Not Ordinary Workers

Dean Baker