The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Dispatch

How a Wave of New Voters Could Take Out Scott Walker in 2018

Thanks to increased voter registration efforts, Democrats may be able to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this fall.

Michael Leon

Labor

Stop Calling It an Arbitration Agreement—Employers Are Forcing Workers to Give Up Their Rights

Moshe Z. Marvit

Labor

The Surprising List of Democrats Who Just—Gratuitously—Bowed to Big Finance

David Dayen

Feature

What We Can Learn From How Laura Moser Made the Democratic Establishment Sweat

After her campaign was torpedoed by the DCCC, Moser gave the establishment's preferred candidate a run for her money.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The Supreme Court’s Latest Anti-Worker Decision Deals a Major Blow to the #MeToo Movement

Rima Parikh and Tanner Howard

Viewpoint

Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter.

For years, Black people have been the canaries in the coal mine for social media abuses.

Kimberly C. Ellis

Rural America

A Revived Poor People’s Campaign Calls for a “Revolution of American Values”

Jessicah Pierre

Feature

Illinois Bill Would Allow Cops to Spy on Protesters Using Drones With Facial-Recognition Technology

Putting this new surveillance power in the hands of police would threaten the most basic right to assemble.

Matthew McLoughlin

Feature

Chase Says It’s Fighting Climate Change. So Why Is It Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry?

Here's why climate justice campaigners protested the big bank's shareholder meeting last week.

Kate Aronoff

Feature

YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis

Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.

Toshio Meronek

Feature

The Never-Ending Nakba

Israel mass-expelled Palestinians from their lands in 1948. The displacement hasn't stopped since.

Rahul Saksena

Labor

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

Lois Weiner

Viewpoint

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

How Facebook helped make the wave of teachers’ strikes possible.

Lois Weiner

Labor

Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat

Michael Arria

Rural America

An Informed Public Threatens Those in Power, But Our Public Is No Threat

CELDF

Feature

The Only Explanation for Why the NRA Has Chosen Oliver North as its New President

The selection of North, a known war criminal, shows that the NRA is fully embracing its role as an extremist right-wing organization.

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

We’re All Zucked

Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data.

Jacob Silverman

Feature

Socialists and Progressives Just Trounced the Democratic Establishment

On Tuesday, insurgent challengers beat out their opponents in races across the country by running on bold left platforms.

Miles Kampf-Lassin