The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
How a Scrappy Campus Union Saved Tennessee From Privatization
The Southern victory could be a blueprint for defending the public sector.
Chris Brooks and Rebecca Kolins Givan

Feature
Calling All Progressive Queers: Time To Dive Into Electoral Work
Creating a better, more Queer world takes a whole lot of door-knocking and canvassing.
Michael Collins

Labor
Can Medicare for All Be the Next $15 an Hour? It’s Up To the Labor Movement.
Michael Lighty

Labor
Prisoners Across Florida Went on Strike. Instead of Fair Wages, They Got Solitary.
Michael Arria

Labor
The Judges Cops Want: These Candidates Have Been Endorsed By Chicago’s Police Union
Alex V. Hernandez

Feature
The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years
From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.
Theo Anderson

Feature
Let’s Reclaim St. Patrick’s Day From Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence
Progressives can celebrate St. Paddy's day by reviving the long, proud Irish tradition of standing with immigrants and refugees.
Molly M. Ginty

Labor
Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Opinion: When an Elected Official Goes Full Racist, It’s Time To Go Negative
How a Chicago community is pushing back against the racist comments of a local official.
Bassem Kawar and Muhammad Sankari

Feature
Neoliberals Are Taking All the Wrong Lessons From Conor Lamb’s Victory
Lamb ran as an anti-establishment, labor-backed candidate who defended the welfare state. To keep winning, Democrats will need to embrace a bold, redistributive program.
Kate Aronoff

Labor
The VA Is the Closest Thing We Have to Single Payer. Now Trump Wants to Privatize It.
Bryce Covert

Rural America
Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid
Patrick Davis

Culture
Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years
A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.
Joanna Scutts

Feature
Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party
The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.
Stephen Zunes

Labor
An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance
Sarah Lahm

Labor
The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?
Shaun Richman

Dispatch
How Obama and Trump Turned Their Backs on Haitians
In a Tijuana church, dozens of migrants remain stranded.
Maya Averbuch

Rural America
A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill
Kim Baca
