The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature

After U of Chicago Cop Shoots Undergrad, Students Say It’s Time to Defund and Disarm Campus Police

Police shot student Charles Thomas last week while he was in the grips of an apparent mental health crisis.

Alex V. Hernandez

Labor

Here’s Why Teachers Are Prepared to Defy Arizona’s Anti-Strike Laws

Sarah Lahm

Feature

Trump Doesn’t Care About Civilian Deaths. Just Look at Yemen.

For three years, the United States has backed a brutal Saudi-led war on Yemen, and ordinary people are paying the price.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Viewpoint

Tariffs Aren’t the Best Way To Protect U.S. Steelworkers. Global Solidarity Is.

Defending workers' rights will mean standing with fellow laborers in China and the Global South. Trump's tariffs aren't the answer.

Katy Fox-Hodess

Viewpoint

A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Viewpoint

How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda

Trump's anti-China protectionism and "free trade" neoliberalism are both dead ends. To confront multinational corporate power, the answer is global solidarity.

Tobita Chow

Labor

How Privatization Sparked the Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising

Valerie Vande Panne

Culture

From Harriet Tubman to Black Panther

An artist speaks on heroism in the Black community.

Madiha Hussaini

Feature

Bombs Aren’t the Answer: A Case for Vigorous Diplomacy in Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen

The latest escalation in Syria underlines the need for political, not military, solutions.

Stephen R. Weissman

Rural America

In the American West, Arbitrary Poverty Designations Are Shortchanging the Rural Poor

Elizabeth Zach

Feature

We Must Stop John Bolton From Escalating War in Syria

Trump's threats to escalate military intervention could open a new, dangerous front in the ongoing conflict.

Phyllis Bennis

Feature

Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan

Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check.

Dayton Martindale

Culture

An Ode to Sharp-Tongued Women, From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sontag

Michelle Dean’s new book Sharp profiles brilliant and creative women who fought sexism, but, by and large, did not identify with the feminist movement.

Laura Tanenbaum

Culture

Barbara Ehrenreich Calls BS on the Immortality Industry

In her new book, Natural Causes, the author reminds us that we can't cheat death -- although we can die trying.

Jane Miller

Labor

The Federal Attack on Sex Workers’ Rights Is a Threat to Everyone’s Free Speech

Carrie Weisman

Feature

The DCCC’s Long, Ugly History of Sabotaging Progressives

The latest attacks on left challengers are no fluke: For decades the House Democratic fundraising body has put corporate, big-money interests first.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The Oklahoma Teachers’ Strike Is a Mutiny Against Austerity

Michelle Chen

Feature

Progressives Have a Game Plan for Replacing the Chicago Machine

The March 20 Illinois primary saw big victories for progressive challengers taking on machine-backed candidates. It’s a model we can follow to transform Chicago politics.

Amisha Patel and Emma Tai