The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Viewpoint
A Historic Election in Chicago Cracks the Machine
The old guard is on the way out, and a progressive future for the city is coming into focus.
Kari Lydersen
Labor
Why Workers at the Biggest Grocery Chain in New England Just Authorized a Strike
Michael Arria
Labor
After Janus, Cities and Towns Are Poised to Become the New Battleground Over “Right to Work”
Nick Johnson
Culture
Feminism in the Age of Precarity
An interview with historian Alice Kessler-Harris on how the past 30 years have changed women’s workplace demands.
Joanna Scutts
Labor
Pennsylvania Workers Are Waging the Biggest U.S. Manufacturing Strike in the Trump Era
Sarah Lahm
Viewpoint
Not Here To Behave: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Shirley Chisholm Have in Common
Like Shirley Chisholm and Ella Baker, when candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib enter the halls of power, they bring their people with them.
Barbara Ransby
Feature
Trump’s Deranged Border Wall Plan, In 11 Statistics
As Congress debates Trump's "national emergency" declaration, here's what you need to know about the proposed border wall.
Conner Martinez
Labor
What the Green New Deal Means for Labor
Saurav Sarkar
Viewpoint
Elizabeth Warren’s Universal Child Care Plan Is a Good Start. Other 2020 Candidates Can Up the Ante.
Warren's plan represents a big step forward, but we should demand something far bolder to address the child care crisis in America.
Kathleen Geier
Viewpoint
The War Criminal Elliott Abrams and the Liberals Who Love Him
Elliott Abrams, who is steering Trump’s Venezuela policy, has a long track record of war crimes. Yet a number of liberal commentators are rushing to his defense.
Paul Heideman
Labor
When a Company Tries to Decertify Its Union
Michael Sainato
Viewpoint
How Third Way Democrats Could Get Trump Re-elected
The New Democracy PAC and other centrist groups want you to learn all the wrong lessons from 2016.
Joel Bleifuss
Labor
Calls Increase for Trump Labor Sec. Alexander Acosta To Resign
Julia Conley
Labor
How West Virginia Teachers Went on Strike Again and Defeated a School Privatization Bill
Barbara Madeloni
Viewpoint
It’s Not Enough To Elect Progressives—Movements Must Have a Role in Governing
Candidates must treat us not as voters to be won but as partners.
Lizeth Chacon
Labor
“Out Here Because I Love Teaching”: The Oakland Teachers Strike, In Photos
Brooke Anderson
Rural America
The Rights of Wild Rice
Winona LaDuke
Feature
Verizon. Pfizer. Bank of America. U.S. Corporations Are Funding Israeli Settlements.
Tax records show that the foundations of well-known corporations are funding settlements that are considered illegal under international law.
Alex Kane
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