The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
“No More Racist Bosses”: Why Workers at a Suburban Target Store Are Protesting
Bruce Vail
Feature
Scott Pruitt’s Replacement at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, Could Be Even Worse
Wheeler might be able to navigate his way around the agency more effectively than Pruitt—and therefore do more damage.
Kate Aronoff
Labor
What the Supreme Court’s Week of Hell Means for People of Color
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?
We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.
Angie Schmitt
Feature
Tammy Duckworth Seems To Have Forgotten That Not All Midwesterners Are White
Duckworth said that while left politics are popular in the Bronx, they can't win in the Midwest. She's wrong in more ways than one.
Eli Day
Rural America
Rural Illinois’ Stake in the Poor People’s Campaign
Holly Ann Stovall
Labor
Is It Time for Parents to Unionize?
Rebecca Stoner
Culture
Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust
A new film follows a working-class everyman through the margins of Brazilian capitalism.
Michael Atkinson
Feature
What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE
Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.
Sarah Lazare
Feature
Emma Goldman: A New Declaration of Independence
In an essay published in July 1909 in Mother Earth, Goldman—a lifelong radical—reminds readers that all humans were created equal.
Emma Goldman
Feature
Eugene Debs: The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World
In an Independence Day speech in 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs declared: "I like the 4th of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution. On this day we reaffirm the ultimate triumph of Socialism. It is coming as certain as I stand in your presence."
Eugene Debs
Feature
As We Celebrate “Independence,” Remember That the U.S. Left Its Colony Puerto Rico to Die
The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were made by inequalities of race, income and access to U.S. political power.
Basav Sen
Culture
Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For
Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Feature
Calls to Abolish ICE Were Everywhere at the Massive March Against Immigrant Family Detention
As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.
Grace Dixon
Labor
A Nationwide Campaign to Take Back Cities From the Corporations That Rule Them
Bryce Covert
Feature
The Left Just Won Big in Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador won on a promise to reverse the disastrous policies of privatization and rampant corruption that have dominated Mexican politics for decades.
Jeff Abbott
Feature
How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions
A union buster may be coming to your door.
Chris Brooks
Dispatch
How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE
Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."
Arun Gupta
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