The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

Inside the Democratic Socialists of America’s Big Decision To Endorse Bernie Sanders

10,000 members voted “yes” in an endorsement poll, outnumbering “nos” 3 to 1, but the debate continues.

Emma Whitford

Feature

“UC for the Many, Not the Few”: Solidarity on the California Picket Lines, In Photos

Thanks to thousands of solidarity strikers, this was the largest strike of 2019.

Brooke Anderson

Feature

Climate Change. War. Poverty. How the U.S.-China Relationship Will Shape Humanity’s Path.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation.

Calvin Cheung-Miaw and Max Elbaum

Feature

The Case for Opening Our Borders

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

Brianna Rennix

Labor

“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Labor

6 Years After Rana Plaza Collapse, an Accord to Improve Bangladesh’s Worker Safety Is in Jeopardy

Michelle Chen

Viewpoint

Does Medicare for All Mean Abolishing Insurance Companies?

Two experts debate.

Natalie Shure and Max B. Sawicky

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