The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America
An Agricultural Movement for People-to-People Reparations Puts Itself on the Map
Emeline Posner

Labor
Colorado Teachers Are Mad as Hell—And Now They’re out on Their First Strike in Decades
Rachel M. Cohen

Labor
Cynthia Nixon Was Right: New York Needs To Get with the Cannabis Equity Program
Donnell Alexander

Feature
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless.
Dayton Martindale

Labor
What Today’s Anti-Trump Resistance Can Learn From a Progressive Who Won in Reagan Country
Larry Cohen

Labor
Workers Just Organized the First Federally-Recognized Fast Food Union in the U.S.
Shane Burley

Labor
50,000 University of California Workers Are Still on Strike. One Key Reason: Outsourcing.
Sarah Lahm

Labor
Bernie Sanders Has a Sweeping Plan to Expand Union Rights and Workplace Democracy
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
How Russia-Obsessed Democrats Set the Stage for Trump’s Disastrous Violation of the Iran Deal
Leading Democrats have bundled their push for a tough stance on Russia with escalation towards Iran.
Michael Arria and Sarah Lazare

Rural America
Two Conversations About “Sustainable Capitalism” and “The Art of Work”
Rural America In These Times

Feature
What the Deployment of Green Berets to the Saudi-Yemen Border Tells Us About America’s Dirty War
The U.S. tries to distance itself from Saudi war crimes in Yemen—but it's always been America's war too.
Shireen Al-Adeimi

Viewpoint
Say It Ain’t Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea
When will the Democrats learn that Americans don’t want centrism?
Joel Bleifuss

Labor
A New Model for Progressive Politics in the Heart of Deindustrialization
Bruce Vail

Labor
Homeownership Is Dead. The Future Lies in Public Housing.
Market-centric housing policies have failed and the path forward is clear: have the government create robust public housing.
Tanner Howard

Feature
Congress Wants to Give Trump a Bipartisan Blank Check for Declaring War
Presidents have been declaring war by executive fiat. A new bill to replace the AUMF would rubber stamp it.
Danny Sjursen

Culture
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Work Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
In Barracoon, published 58 years after her death, the Harlem Renaissance writer interviews the last known survivor of a slave ship.
Lauren Michele Jackson

Labor
Prisoners Are Organizing a Nationwide Strike Against “Modern-Day Slavery”
Michael Arria

Rural America
Farm Crisis: “Without Immediate Government Action, The Days Of The Small Dairy Farm Are Numbered”
Paul Deaton
