The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Why Labor Is Holding Its Applause for Michigan’s Latest “Workers’ Rights” Measures

Bryce Covert

Feature

The Test Facing Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar in New York

Amid controversy, Salazar is working to make her state senate race against a real estate-backed incumbent about vision and policy.

Nick Vachon

Feature

What It Will Take To Bring Real Justice for Laquan McDonald

Organizers don't just want Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke indicted, they want community control of the police.

David North

Dispatch

Trump’s Heartless Honduras Policy, in 15 Numbers

By revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Trump administration is sending Honduran immigrants back to a nation in crisis.

Sasha Kramer

Labor

Thousands of Chicago Workers Are Out On the First Citywide Hotel Strike In Over a Century

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

The Prison Strike Is the Modern-Day American Slave Rebellion

Eli Day

Dispatch

Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids

As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services.

Valerie Vande Panne

Feature

Black Feminism Will Save Us All

Why we desperately need real intersectional feminism.

Premilla Nadasen

Feature

How Radical Black Socialists Paved the Way for Andrew Gillum and Other Left Insurgents

Gillum and other left challengers are winning on an economic agenda pushed for decades by black-led social movements.

Eli Day

Viewpoint

We Are Witnessing the Last Gasps of Centrism

While the Democratic establishment is blindly attempting to revive the neoliberal Third Way, the party's base is embracing socialism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature

Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago

A conversation with writer and organizer, Mariame Kaba.

Sarah Lazare

Dispatch

Will Mexico’s New President Declare Independence From the United States?

At public forums, Mexicans are pushing Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break with the U.S. on migration and drug policy.

Kent Paterson

Feature

Indigenous Women Rise Against Jerry Brown’s Climate Half-Measures

Ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, organizers prepare to advocate more radical solutions.

Isabel Bloom

Feature

Seeking Justice for Laquan McDonald—Without Relying on Prisons

Locking up killer cop, Jason Van Dyke, won't address the root cause of his violence.

Benji Hart

Labor

To Stop the Next Financial Crisis, We Need Public Ownership of Banks—Now

Thomas M. Hanna

Labor

What Spurred a 98% Strike Vote by LA Teachers? Plutocrats Pushing Charter Schools

Bruce Vail

Feature

Rehabilitating a Monster: George W. Bush and the Bankruptcy of Civility Politics

On the laundering of a war criminal.

Roqayah Chamseddine

Labor

Why the Left Should Embrace Debt Forgiveness

Scott Remer