The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover
Labor
Arizona Teachers Are Prepared to Strike to Fix the Education Crisis Themselves
Sarah Jaffe
Feature
Scott Pruitt’s Real Scandal Is Helping Turn the U.S. Into a Full-Fledged Petrostate
The EPA chief isn’t just corrupt—he believes the role of government is to help the fossil fuel industry maximize profits.
Kate Aronoff
Culture
Universal Basic Income: A Primer
Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government.
Dayton Martindale
Labor
Nation’s Richest, Including Trump, Are About to Enjoy a $17 Billion Windfall Due to a Tax Loophole
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
Rural America
The Three “Great Separations” that Unravelled Our Connection to Earth and Each Other
John Ikerd
Dispatch
This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations.
A North Carolina sheriff’s office had a “pattern of racial profiling,” but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s ICE from inviting it into the 287(g) program.
Jordan Green
Labor
Toiling Over a “Puddle of Blood”: Why These Warehouse Workers Are Standing Up to Abuses
Mica Soellner
Feature
Electronic Monitors: How Companies Dream of Locking Us in Our Homes
These are the corporations profiting from e-carceration.
James Kilgore
Dispatch
This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor
Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.
Theo Anderson
Feature
Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration
In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp
Winona LaDuke
Labor
Nearly 5,000 JetBlue Flight Attendants Just Voted To Unionize, in a Major Win for Airline Labor
Sarah Lahm
Labor
Rotten and Rat-Infested: The Appalling Food and Healthcare Conditions Facing Inmates in U.S. Prisons
Michelle Chen
Labor
Puerto Rico’s Major Newspapers Laid Off Reporters Just When the Island Needed Them the Most
Katherine Braden
Feature
Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change
From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.
Samuel Miller-McDonald
Rural America
The House Farm Bill Ignores What Farmers Want (and Farm Groups Call BS)
Karen Perry Stillerman
Labor
West Virginia Teachers and the Return of Labor Feminism
Rachel Johnson
Feature
Yaser Murtaja Was Killed by Israel While Reporting From Gaza. His Death Is One of Many.
Israel has a long-standing pattern of killing Palestinian journalists and attacking media institutions.
Alex Kane
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