The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro

Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts.

Michael Fox

Labor

When Sex Workers Do the Labor of Therapists

Carrie Weisman

Labor

What It Will Take to Build Union Support for the Green New Deal—Despite the AFL-CIO

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Your Favorite Podcast May Soon Be Union as Gimlet Media Becomes First in the Industry to Organize

Julianne Tveten

Dispatch

Tiffany Cabán—A Queer, Millennial, DSA-Backed Latina—Has Made History in Queens

Meet Tiffany Cabán, the 31-year-old queer Latina public defender who earned Queens DSA’s endorsement.

Douglas Grant

Feature

When Former Prosecutors Rebrand Themselves as Progressives to Win Elections

From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.

Victoria Law

Feature

The Private Prison Divestment Movement Just Had an Incredible Week

Activists are stopping banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo from financing the caging of migrant children. Here’s how.

David Dayen

Dispatch

Indigenous Organizers Halted Plans for Oil Drilling in the Amazon

Sustained demonstrations in Ecuador got the government to back down—at least for now.

Kimberley Brown

Labor

Privatization Is Fundamentally An Attack on Democracy. The Teachers Strikes Show Why.

Jeremy Mohler

Viewpoint

Rashida Tlaib: Impeach Trump Now

Every day that we don’t address corruption, we are setting a precedent and eroding our democracy.

Rashida Tlaib

Labor

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

Nato Green

Culture

Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future?

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue in a new book that megacorporations—although odious—demonstrate the massive central planning we need.

Peter Frase

Viewpoint

A Call for Clear Heads on Venezuela: How To Criticize Maduro While Opposing U.S. Regime Change

Working-class Venezuelans have long pushed the chavista government for greater democracy and justice—without ceding ground to the right-wing opposition.

Alejandro Velasco

Culture

Street Art Used To Be the Voice of the People. Now It’s the Voice of Advertisers.

Corporations like Red Bull and Stella Artois are co-opting graffiti art.

Christine MacDonald

Labor

Sherrod Brown Is Out for 2020, But the Fight for Workers’ Rights Is Not

Kelly Candaele

Feature

Young Black Feminists Have Some Pointers for Obama

Instead of scolding Black youth, Assata's Daughters is helping them organize to transform the world.

Eli Day

Labor

Will 2020 Be the Year Presidential Candidates Actually Take Labor Issues Seriously?

David Goodner

Feature

Another Failed Coup in Venezuela?

The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots.

George Ciccariello-Maher